THE PENNSYLVANIA MAY|JUN20 GAZETTE

Grappling With Inequality Penn’s Response to COVID-19 A Walker Around the City DP Major Eric Jacobs EE’80 Graduates At this time of crisis and uncertainty, we are one in spirit. Penn Quakers all over the world— united by our shared pride and love of Penn and now—more than ever—by everyday acts of heroism and hope.

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PHOTO CREDIT: UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS THE PENNSYLVANIA Features GAZETTE MAY|JUN20 Inequality Economics The Edge Tax the rich! And the poor. Walking the perimeter 28 But not the way we do it now, 36 of Philadelphia. nor necessarily for the usual By JJ Tiziou reasons. As an economist pushing his field to grapple with inequality, Wharton’s Paper Man Benjamin Lockwood may change the Eric Jacobs EE’80 has been at the way you think about the government’s 44 Daily Pennsylvanian since articles broadest power. were written on typewriters and By Trey Popp layout was done by (actual) cutting and pasting. The newspaper’s longtime general manager is also a shared connection among every DP alum of the last 40 years. But this summer, he plans to leave the only job he’s ever had. By Molly Petrilla

Dotdash Rising After putting the familiar 50 but failing website About.com out of its misery, Dotdash CEO Neil Vogel W’92 has managed to craft a thriving group of websites from the company’s wreckage. By Alyson Krueger

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sive upheavals that have On the morning of threatened it over his tenure. September 11, 2001, I was Among the most signifi cant researching old issues of the Distance Gazette of those challenges has been magazine for the ’s the growth of the internet. In upcoming centennial in 2002 “Dotdash Rising” Alyson when the news came. I re- Learning Krueger C’07 profi les Neil Vo- member writing about how gel W’92, who has been work- my wife and I took our daugh- ing in digital media since the ter, released early from day- state the obvious, this and “the annual federal bud- 1990s. Most recently, as the care, to the playground, and has been an unusual get defi cit also just crossed CEO of Dotdash, Vogel has suc- the recurring dread that an To issue of the Gazette to the $1 trillion mark.” But the ceeded in resuscitating the fa- attack would happen again, put together. issues raised in the story, miliar but faded website About. suddenly, out of the blue sky. It’s early April as I write this. which focuses on the work of com—its constituent parts, at The current crisis is diff er- We were about halfway into Benjamin Lockwood, an as- least—thereby managing one ent of course—a combination our editorial cycle when the sistant professor of business of the few second acts in this of terrifyingly rapid change University announced the deci- economics and public policy notably unforgiving industry. and agonizing slow motion sion to have all but essential at the Wharton School, may as we watch the case count employees work remotely; sent be more relevant than ever as Most of the and death toll rise and wait the vast majority of students society wrestles with issues to learn whether the mea- home from campus and shift- around taxation and wealth content in sures put in place will suc- ed classes online for the re- inequality going forward. these pages ceed in “fl attening the curve.” mainder of the semester; and To my shame, I wasn’t part (As a historical side note, I cancelled spring events, in- of the Daily Pennsylvanian was conceived only recall fi nding one article cluding Alumni Weekend and during my student days, but that mentioned the 1918 infl u- Commencement. I’m familiar with—not to say before the novel enza pandemic in our archi- We have a story in “Gazet- envious of—the devotion and coronavirus val searches, a relatively brief teer” by associate editor Dave sense of camaraderie former item about medical students Zeitlin C’03 detailing that se- staff ers feel for the institu- reshaped our and others helping care for quence of events, and Presi- tion. In “Paper Man,” Molly the sick and keep hospital dent Gutmann also off ers a Petrilla C’06—a proud former daily lives. rooms clean.) message to the alumni com- editor of the Summer Penn- We should all know more munity in “From College Hall.” sylvanian—profi les perhaps As we take our daily exer- by the time this Gazette But most of the other content the one constant (aside from cise warily on the lookout for reaches you. In that fi rst is- in these pages was conceived lack of sleep) in the DP expe- heedless joggers and others sue after 9/11, we published a and largely executed in the rience: general manager Eric careless about social distanc- special section of the maga- days before the novel corona- Jacobs EE’80, who is retiring ing guidelines, photographer zine compiling campus reac- virus reshaped our daily after 40 years on the job. and community organizer JJ tions to the attack, specula- lives—which may make it Building on a temporary Tiziou C’02 reminds us of the tions about the future, and seem woefully beside the point gig to introduce computers loose, relaxed joy of going for related experiences of alum- or a welcome relief (or both). into the newsroom, Jacobs a long walk with friends— ni. We’ll hope to bring you Our cover story, “Inequality has spent his career helping though his excursion is more something along those lines Economics,” by senior editor generations of students get quirky and adventurous than in Jul|Aug. In the meantime, Trey Popp, takes as its point out the paper (and more re- most. In “The Edge,” Tiziou best wishes and stay well. of departure a moment from cently, the blogs, podcasts, writes about the latest itera- the distant past—September videos, social media posts, tion of his annual project of 2019, when “the US economy etc.); keep the lights on and walking around the city of has just posted its 123rd con- the equipment running; and Philadelphia and also shares secutive month of growth, ensure that Penn’s indepen- photographs of what he and extending the longest expan- dent student media organiza- his companions saw along sion in the country’s history” tion weathered the succes- the way.

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Everyday Heroism numbers are rising very quickly. Our eff orts are guided by CHIME (COVID-19 Hospital Impact Model for Epidemics), in Extraordinary Times a sophisticated algorithm built in record In the face of global crisis, Penn rises time by Penn data scientist Corey Chiv- ers and associates in Predictive Health- to meet the challenge. care that has already been adopted widely, including by the California By Amy Gutmann Department of Public Health, the Fed- eral Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and increasing numbers of nations overseas. Based on this model- hese were the most unsettling set of dinary bravery, as has been so evident ing, Penn is preparing. decisions in all my years as a univer- among our courageous Penn doctors and All elective surgeries have been can- sity leader: To ask every student who nurses, researchers and volunteers. celled. Telemedicine has replaced thou- T had a safe home to leave campus Extraordinary times also evince everyday sands of in-person appointments, rising mid-semester. To extend Spring Break heroism. Each of our actions and deci- from about a hundred a day to 5,000 for a week to enable students to resettle sions have a profound eff ect on how well, daily now, and climbing. As many hos- and faculty to gear up to teach 4,000 and how soon, this war ends. Writing pital rooms as can be spared are being courses via virtual instruction in one with six other academic health center reserved for patients whose lives will week’s time. To postpone until a date leaders in the New York Times, Perelman depend on our capacity to off er care. We uncertain our most venerable and jubi- School of Medicine Dean Larry Jameson have set up Infl uenza-Like Illness Surge lant celebrations, Commencement and captured the stakes of our individual Tents outside of all UPHS emergency Alumni Weekend. To empty our dynam- action: “physical separation is the best rooms. We are developing plans for a ic campus of all but essential personnel. way to slow the spread. The fewer con- possible super surge that will require Over a matter of days, the transition tacts, and the greater distance between use of tents, lobbies, and vacated clinical from BC (before coronavirus) to AD people, the better. … Our doctors and spaces for critical cases, while incorpo- (after disruption) had become an abso- nurses are ready to care for you. Our rating non-emergency department phy- lute imperative. At the urging of public research teams are constantly working sicians into the emergency workforce. health experts, based on incontrovert- to fi nd new treatments. But they need Penn researchers are leading eff orts to ible evidence of how quickly this virus your help. Be a health care hero.” combat the virus through initiatives spreads and how often it kills, we acted. By accepting this responsibility, we such as our newly launched Center for As I write this in late March, we are in exercise everyday heroism in extraordi- Research on Coronaviruses and Other the early stages of a war with COVID-19. nary times. We not only protect our Emerging Pathogens. We are also We took decisive action to reduce our families, friends, and those most at risk. screening FDA-approved drugs for activ- campus numbers for two all-important We also—and as essentially—reduce the ity against COVID-19. purposes. First, we must safeguard the surge of demand on our healthcare sys- We bring to bear the research might of health of our students, faculty, staff , and tems. We support and give our health- Penn—recognized as one of the top four community. Second, we must do every- care heroes a fi ghting chance to carry most innovative universities in the thing we can in advance to prevent our out their calling, to save lives. world—while confronting the same chal- health system from being overwhelmed Penn Medicine is on the front lines of lenges facing so many regions of our and understaff ed at the precise moment this war. Even before we emptied the country and the world. Personal protec- when vulnerable individuals whose lives campus, we had already initiated mas- tive equipment for care providers is are at risk need us most. As wrenching sive preparation for a surge in corona- increasingly in short supply. We seek a as these decisions felt at the time, virus cases. Today, the University of dramatic increase in access to ventilators mounting evidence suggests that they Pennsylvania Health System continues and other essential lifesaving devices. We correctly anticipated what’s to come. to ramp up all measures on this front. take every possible step to care for the This is a battle that engages us all to As I write, our doctors and nurses are doctors and nurses on the front lines. serve a common good. testing and treating COVID-19 positive Their brave work puts them most at risk Extraordinary times call forth extraor- cases from across the region, and the of contracting the disease themselves.

4 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Admissions Here is where the everyday heroism of by COVID-19. These funds will be used to Penn people from around the world is distribute emergency grants to eligible admissions.upenn.edu already making a profound diff erence. Penn employees and third-party, contract The global response from our alumni workers; they will provide support for has been inspiring. You see it at a city University City retailers and neighbor- Penn Admissions drive-thru COVID-19 testing site in the hood businesses; and will contribute to remains a resource parking lot of Citizens Bank Park, where the PHL COVID-19 Fund in support of Penn Nursing alumna Marina Spitkovs- local non-profi t social services agencies. for students and kaya Nu’11 GNu’14 puts on a protective With a $1 million Penn Medicine em- parents navigating face mask before swabbing patients. You ployee assistance plan already in place the college search hear of it when you learn that Wharton and pay continuation for Bon Appetit Board of Overseers member Xin Zhou contract dining workers through May 15, process. arranged an emergency shipment of Penn’s total contribution to emergency MORE INFORMATION: 20,000 N95 face masks for immediate assistance exceeds $5 million. use in the Penn Health System, to be It would take pages upon pages for me admissions.upenn.edu/ followed by a second shipment of addi- to report on all the activities like these parents-families tional medical supplies within that exemplify what Penn does best. In days. Other alumni from China are in the face of global crisis, we meet the chal- the process of shipping N95 facemasks lenge, we help the affl icted, we rise to the INQUIRIES: to the Health System, some in quantities occasion, we teach what can be learned, [email protected] of 10,000 or more. And each day I hear and we learn what can be done better. of more alumni who are reaching out to A brisk walk across campus today support our Penn community. reveals a strange dichotomy: College Facing challenges and an unsettling Green, Penn Park, and the entire length terrain we have never before experi- of Locust Walk are decked in spring col- enced, Penn faculty, students, and staff ors, yet eerily empty. I am not dispirited. have responded with alacrity, doing The perennial blooms remind us that Students Aiming for what we do best: discovering knowledge, regular academic life in all its vibrancy Top Tier Colleges... caring for others, teaching the next gen- will return. And the quiet in its own way eration. I was not surprised that when reassures: It’s the sound of all Penn Penn launched an online class, “Epidem- people acting together as one, with her- ics, Natural Disasters, and Geopolitics: oism both extraordinary and everyday, Receive strategic advice, tools, and guidance from Managing Global Business and Finan- to meet this challenge. It is the quiet of the nation’s premier college consultants, helping cial Uncertainty,” it received extensive focus, of steely determination as Penn students for over 20 years: media attention as the fi rst of its kind to prepares and responds. DR. MICHELE HERNANDEZ Former Assistant Director of Admissions at give students the opportunity to learn, Dartmouth Author of A is for Admission in real time, from the current crisis and MIMI DOE how to prepare for the next one. More IT’S NOT TOO LATE Parenting guru, educator & author of than 1,900 students are currently en- TO BECOME Busy but Balanced rolled and Wharton professor Mauro A DOCTOR • Unparalleled success rate Guillen, who leads the class, has brought Advising and facilitating every step of the way • Intensive, full-time preparation for medical • together a stellar group of Penn faculty school in one year • Lessen stress and increase college choices possessing multidisciplinary expertise • Early acceptance programs at select medical Join our small group of students for personal schools—more than any other postbac program ranging from politics and psychology to admissions consulting. Call now for information. • Supportive, individual academic and international fi nance, crisis manage- premedical advising ment, and behavioral economics. VISIT US AT WWW.BRYNMAWR.EDU/POSTBAC

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We Welcome Honest and beautiful story, Letters Please email us at [email protected]. Please note, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, fear giant governments Gazette offices are closed until further notice and we cannot retrieve postal mail at this time. Letters should refer to material published in the not companies, regarding magazine and may be edited for clarity, civility, Wright, more debate on and length. corporate concentration is causing other climate change. kinds of damage.” He goes on to claim that it “is tilting the balance of power between employers and workers, because Compassionate Awareness workers have fewer alternatives, allowing Kimberly Acquaviva’s story—“Finding companies to demand more and pay less” Life in Death” by Dave Zeitlin [Mar|Apr and also “taking a toll on democracy.” 2020]—about the death of her wife, Kathy I suggest that we live in an era of giant Brandt, was honest and full of empathet- governments, and there is increasing ic compassion. Kimberly’s caregiving role evidence consumers—a.k.a. taxpaying was based upon Kathy’s needs, as Kathy citizens—are suff ering. Governmental perceived them. Kimberly was able to put concentration and intensifi cation of aside outside noise and focus on what regulatory power is causing all kinds of Kathy needed. In particular, Kimberly damage. It is tilting the balance of power recognized that the battle metaphor— between taxpaying citizens and govern- You’re going to fi ght this, you’re going to ment employees, because taxpaying citi- beat this—wasn’t going to be helpful in zens have so much less economic free- Kathy’s situation. dom and personal liberty, allowing gov- This compassionate awareness re- ernment employees—especially unelect- minded me of a letter to the editor I was ed bureaucrats—to demand more compli- moved to write in 2011 about “A Train to ance with their edicts even as they do less Nowhere,” Don Trachtenberg’s essay “Those whom at higher cost. Governmental concentra- about his journey as he accompanied his tion of regulatory power also is taking a wife during her fi nal years [“Alumni we love and care toll on our constitutional republic. Voices,” Nov|Dec 2011]. In a very diff er- Stu Mahlin WG’65, Cincinnati ent setting, his compassion was based for during life upon a key understanding of the kind of Wright Was My Hero support his wife needed. need the same Regarding “Rewriting Wright” on Paul Those whom we love and care for dur- type of empathetic Hendrickson’s recent biography of Frank ing life need the same type of empathet- Lloyd Wright [“Arts,” Mar|Apr 2020], it is ic care as they near their deaths. It’s their care as they near indeed reassuring that that irascible ge- needs, not ours, that are most important. nius is still a subject of great interest even Jim Waters WG’71, Pearl River, NY their deaths.” today. Hendrickson seems to have expend- ed great eff ort in this latest endeavor. Beautiful Story of a Loving Family Back in 1951, when I was a student in the Bawled my eyes out on NJ Transit Government Concentration School of Fine Arts, there was a great show while reading “Finding Life in Death.” Is Also Taking a Toll of Wright’s projects at the Gimbel Brothers Talking openly about the inevitable pro- In his essay “Kronos Syndrome” [“Ex- department store. Our class spent an af- cess of death makes life feel that much pert Opinion,” Mar|Apr 2020], Binyamin ternoon at the exhibit and Wright was my richer. A beautiful story of a loving fam- Appelbaum tells us that “we live in an era hero for the rest of my years at Penn. I ily that forever changed my perspective. of giant corporations, and there is little even projected my fascination with Wright Allison Strouse Williams W’07, New York evidence consumers are suff ering. But in the undergraduate class taught by

6 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Louis I. Kahn. Fortunately, Kahn was a Don’t Give Them a Platform politics. He then further reveals his com- man of great empathy. He even told me, I am puzzled by the Gazette’s decision plete ignorance of the science by stating “You can do anything you want,” and I to choose to highlight letters responding that “climate has not changed that much received an A for my project. I should note to the Jan|Feb 2020 issue’s “The New Cli- (except in China and India).” Climate is that in a few later years, with his emerging mate Advocates” from climate hoaxers a world-wide phenomenon and (at least master works, I recognized Kahn as the grumbling about the machinations of to most rational people) decades of ever other great master of the 20th century and “the left” [“Letters,” Mar|Apr 2020]. increasing “hottest years ever” would worked for him for six years. There is no debate here in which two qualify as “changed that much.” In 1953 the Tyler School of Art at Tem- sides must be given equal weight. My son Similarly, Les Schaevitz calls climate ple University held an exhibition of is 15 months old. In the three months change “a problem that does not exist” Wright drawings. Wright also gave the since his fi rst birthday, the world has and “intellectual dishonesty.” He then opening lecture, which I attended. Tyler’s seen catastrophic wildfi res in Australia, reveals his ignorance by saying there is dean, Boris Blai, opened with a lengthy record temperatures in Antarctica, and “no scientifi c proof whatsoever” for the introduction that seemed to go on and the hottest month in recorded history. eff ect of humanity on the climate. First on. To the delight of the audience Wright, What will the world be like in 10, 50, 100 of all, scientifi c “proof” is something that who was sitting at the back of the stage, years? Let these people rant and rave does not exist. There is only scientifi c approached the podium and, with a mis- their lies and conspiracy theories in pri- “evidence,” of which there is an over- chievous smile, took Blai’s speech and vate. Don’t give them a platform. whelming abundance when it comes to asked him to sit down mid-introduction. Rachel Frankford GSE’15, Philadelphia the infl uence of our carbon emissions. He then delivered a hardly profound lec- Arguing about the subtle details of the ture that seemed to be a simple overview Science Needs Skeptics, data, or the best ways to address this of his architectural philosophy. But he Not Climate Deniers problem, are legitimate activities. Blind- was in fact in his 80s and a bit frail. It was What school did these folks attend? I ly rejecting all of the data is not. still rewarding to actually see the man was profoundly embarrassed to read the In all fairness, I commend the concern and to see the sparkle in his eyes as he letters from John Silliman (“We Need to Schaevitz shows for other environmen- spoke. The drawings were remarkable Come to our Senses”) and Les Schaevitz tal issues such as plastic pollution. Our and inspired my presentations to follow. (“Reject the ‘Climate Cult’”), both of whom country would be in much better shape I assume Hendrickson has included were at Penn during part of the time I was if more folks on the conservative politi- some of the great Wright anecdotes. Phil- there. I don’t know what they studied, but cal side acknowledged at least some of ip Johnson once facetiously called Wright they certainly didn’t learn anything about our many environmental problems. “the greatest architect of the 19th century.” science or intellectual rigor. George S. F. Stephans C’76 Gr’82, Arlington, MA Wright in turn called Philip Johnson’s I have no objection to someone being glass house “a monkey cage for a monkey.” skeptical about some aspects of climate No Other Valid Point of View Hendrickson’s story about Wright’s ap- change. Science needs skeptics. How- There are not two sides to every issue. pearance in court rings a curious bell, as ever, rejecting the very idea of climate For example, there are not two sides to it seems to relate to the following Wright change while making profoundly igno- the fl at Earth issue. The Earth is round. episode: One of Wright’s greatest ambi- rant comments about the science shows There is no other valid point of view. An- tions was the commission for the United that your objections are purely political other example is gravity. Gravity exists. States Air Force Academy in Colorado. He and devoid of the thought process (a There are not two sides to that issue. We promoted this ambition with a concep- quote I learned from Car Talk). may not understand all there is to know tual design for the Academy that he pre- John Silliman says that there “used to about gravity, but there is no other valid sented to the Air Force, to no avail. He was be two sides to every scientifi c or politi- point of view regarding its reality. goaded by the stone lobby to testify before cal issue, or else.” As just two examples, The same is true of climate change. The Congress, disparaging the projected de- I don’t remember any serious journalists Earth is warming, and the rate of warm- sign. When he returned to his home, taking the rantings of the John Birch ing is accelerating. The principal cause Taliesin, a friend asked Wright how he Society seriously, or interviewing the of this warming is the increase in carbon could have introduced himself to the Con- crackpots who claim that quantum me- dioxide and other greenhouse gases in gress of the United States as the world’s chanics, or relativity, or whatever, is the atmosphere. The principal source of greatest architect. Wright responded, “I totally bogus. As soon as he says, “the the excess accumulation of greenhouse had no choice, I was under oath.” right’s side of climate change,” he reveals gases in the atmosphere is human activ- David H Karp Ar’59, San Mateo, CA that he has no interest in science, only ity. There is no valid evidence for any

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other point of view. We may not know the 2018 report from the Intergovern- grace and mercy—chen and chesed in exactly what to do about it, or we may mental Panel on Climate Change, which Hebrew, the language of the Bible that not be able to predict accurately the fu- was referred to in “Tipping Points” He speaks all things into existence—that ture course of events, but there is no [“From the Editor,” Jan|Feb 2020] that we are able to have any kind of discus- point in lending any validity to the point introduced the issue containing the ar- sion at all, as He gives us breath. Let us of view that climate change is a myth. ticle “The New Climate Advocates.” bow in reverence to say we know that Elliot Werner C’67 M’71, Fremont, CA The idea that humans contribute to there is a great Hand who controls the climate change is hardly a left-wing climate. We can and will soon see a Carbon Claptrap conspiracy, nor are those who would change in the climate if we “return” to The idea that we can control a chaotic seek to limit climate change a “cult.” Him (in Hebrew, teshuvah) and humble climate, governed by a billion factors, by I would expect every academic institu- ourselves. Admit our reliance on the fi ddling around with a few politically tion to look at the science behind a hy- “agency” that is much greater than we selected gases is carbon claptrap. The pothesis and subject it to rigorous ex- are, and live in partnership with our real Intergovernmental Panel on Climate amination. Having done that, I would CEO, the God of Creation who gives us Change (IPCC) is a UN-run bureaucracy expect that institution, like Penn, to our Existence and Our life. The Creator whose reliance on faulty computer mod- support ideas that refl ect the consensus of the Universe. Our Lord and maker. els forfeits any claim to scientifi c verac- of scientifi c opinion on the subject. Blessed be He!! ity. No models can explain why global Bruce E. Endy C’66, Wynnewood, PA Joanne Gover Yoshida W’82 GAr’86 climate has been remarkably stable for 20 years despite a substantial increase God Controls the Climate What Does It Say About Penn in atmospheric CO2. In reading “The New Climate Advo- To call the reaction to the mercenary Fossil fuels have dramatically raised liv- cates,” I notice an omission too impor- plan to change Penn Law’s name to Penn ing standards all over the world. To deprive tant to leave out of a discussion on cli- Carey Law “some backlash” is like call- the developing world from utilizing them mate control: there is a God who con- ing the Civil War a bit of a tussle [“Gaz- would be to consign billions of people to trols the climate. Reading the article etteer,” Jan|Feb]. Thousands of students misery and poverty. To have this happen in one might think “climate” is something and alumni are up in arms, many of us our country would be catastrophic. that politicians and lawyers and activ- swearing never to donate another penny Eric Hoff er wrote: “Every great cause ists “control.” What a diff erence our ef- to the law school. Ultimately this mis- begins as a movement, becomes a busi- fectiveness would have if we lifted our guided plan will cost the law school far ness, and degenerates into a racket.” hands in surrender that we are ulti- more than the $125 million with which Barry D. Galman C’59 M’63 GM’65, Palm mately not in “control.” Then the practi- the W. P. Carey Foundation bought nam- Beach Gardens, FL cal actions can begin! ing rights. Penn Carey Law sounds ri- First, may we give thanks to God for diculous, and like we’re a franchise of Critiques Missed the Point His mercy to bring the sun up each day Maryland Carey Law. Can you imagine I was both disheartened and disturbed and give us life, and give us “climate,” Harvard or Yale doing such a thing? If to read the multiple letters to the editor and for keeping it so preciously balanced not, then what does it say about Penn, from obvious climate deniers who con- that we can live and breathe in each day. other than that we have internalized the fused an article that focused on how to Let’s put aside our pride and desire to be view that we’re second-rate? reduce global warming with an article in control of something that is in the Rose M. Weber CW’75 L’96, New York that might have been about the science hands of the Almighty, and subordinate behind climate change. The critiques ourselves to the “Climate Controller.” The Duel Is a Standoff missed the point. Climate change is real. I can suggest, after humbling our- While I agree with Brian Rosenwald’s Human activities—i.e., burning fossil selves and giving thanks, that we take essay, “Bill Busters” [“Expert Opinion,” fuels—contribute to it. And we can do the next small and yet great step to Jan|Feb 2020], that the conservative something about it, if we set our minds start—each person in the privacy of our movement for the most part has taken and eff orts to the task. But to answer room, kneel in prayer and confess that over talk radio, the left-wing movement those who still question the anthropo- we can’t do it without Him, that we to compensate has taken over TV, dom- genic sources of climate change, don’t need Him, and desire to be in relation- inating the programs and presentations. take my word for it, read NASA’s sum- ship with Him. Apparently considering the closeness of mary of the problem at https://climate. What a great partnership to seek! And recent elections, the duel is a standoff . nasa.gov/scientifi c-consensus/ or read to acknowledge that it is thanks to His Nelson Marans, parent, New York

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dial up answers. But he didn’t say that. He said, “No one knows.” “Are there any other drugs in develop- ment or clinical trials?” Dr. van Rhee was unfailingly calm and caring when he responded to my most important question. “No, not at the moment.” “Are there any planned?” “Not that I’m aware of.” I was talking to the undisputed world- wide expert on Castleman disease, and he didn’t know what initiated the disease or what caused it. Or how to prevent re- lapses in patients for whom the only ex- perimental treatment in development didn’t work. That meant that no one knew. There were no more appeals. There was no higher bench. He was not fl atter- ing himself by speaking on behalf of the world’s knowledge of my condition. He was that knowledge. He didn’t just have authority; he was the authority. As a medical student, I could select the correct answer to each of these ques- tions for what seemed like every disease, but not this one. “I know elevated interleukin 6 is sup- posed to be the problem, but blocking it hasn’t worked twice now and my inter- leukin 6 tests were normal during my Impatient Hope presentation and relapses,” I said. “Is it possible that interleukin 6 isn’t the prob- No one knew how to cure my disease. lem for all cases?” By David Fajgenbaum “It’s possible.” That was it. It was possible. Anything was possible. I knew what he meant. I knew the lan- needed answers. I may or may not Why not? I wanted to ask. And why me? guage that doctors use: the careful truth have been approaching death for the I swallowed those fi nal questions, but telling, the hedging, the open-ended- fourth time. As a cocktail of seven a hospital room is never, ever silent, ness. I’d spoken that language before. I chemotherapy drugs dripped into my even in the dead of night, or even when Now that it was directed at me, it didn’t arm through an IV pole, I asked Dr. van a conversation grinds to a halt and the feel nearly as careful, or open-ended, as Rhee everything I had been obsessing participants are left to quietly pick at I’d once assumed. I’d been consigned to over since my case of Castleman disease the implications of what’s been said, and the plane of possibility. Anything was had come roaring back … again. what’s been impossible to say. possible, because no one knew. I was on “What causes this to happen?” Dr. van Rhee was not saying “I don’t my own. “No one knows.” know” to my queries about my illness. A proper patient might have taken Dr. “Which type of immune cell is respon- He might have said, “I’m not sure, let me van Rhee’s pronouncements with humil- sible for initiating this?” look that up—” and swiveled over to his ity and acceptance, but no one knows “No one knows.” computer to plug in the symptoms and didn’t cut it for me. There are things we

10 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Illustration by Rich Lillash can change and things we cannot die, because the only drug in develop- ticulating a call to be “invincible in hope.” change. We need either the grace to ac- ment for my disease had failed to work. I’d interpreted it as a conviction that in- cept them, the ignorance to not know The harsh reality was that the medical vincibility came simply from having faith the diff erence, or prayers to fi nd anoth- community didn’t understand the most that your hopes and dreams would come er expert who has the answers. I am not basic aspects of my illness, and the true. You just needed to trust and wait. graceful. I was no longer ignorant of the world’s expert in it had run out of ideas Taking action, in my reading, was almost realities of idiopathic multicentric Cas- and options for me. in opposition to being invincible in hope. tleman disease. And I was getting tired Despite the fact that my immune sys- But much later I found the remainder of of praying. tem was consuming all of my energy as the Pope’s speech. He went on to say, A whole mental structure built on faith it attacked my organs, despite the ac- “Happiness is achieved through sacrifi ce. and expectation—or hubris—collapsed cumulated toxins that clouded my think- Do not look outside for what is to be for me that day. When Dr. van Rhee en- ing, I had the most clear and important found inside. Do not expect from others tered that room to discuss my disease thought of my young life: I could no what you yourselves can and are called rationally—doctor to emerging doctor— longer just hope that my treatment to be or to do.” I had believed there had been a vast, un- would work. I could no longer hope Now I knew what I had been called to seen, but highly coordinated system of someone else, somewhere, would make do. I asked the nurse for a dose of Zofran scientists, companies, and physicians a breakthroughs that could save my life. for my nausea. I asked my sister Gena if working diligently to cure my disease. No: I had to get off the sidelines and act. she could get a copy of my bloodwork. Every disease, actually. Of course there If I didn’t start fi ghting back to cure this She wiped away tears and sprang into was. Right? disease, I would soon die. I would never action, eager to do something, anything Like Santa and his elves working to get to marry Caitlin or have a family that could help her little brother. I need- grant wishes to every good boy and girl with her. I had to start now. ed my test results so I could start study- in the world, I imagined that for every My body was dying. I was spent. But ing my disease—and also so I could es- problem in the world, a highly qualifi ed at least I wasn’t on the sidelines any- timate how much time I likely had be- team worked diligently, perhaps in a more. Now I was in the game, and I fore kidney or liver failure left me inca- workshop, and it operated out of sight, knew what I had to do. I would simply pacitated, or dead. out of mind, right up until the moment have to increase the world’s medical Then I squared up to this beast of a that it solved the problem. Google rein- knowledge about Castleman disease. disease. With three more days of con- forces this belief. For every question you My sisters, Caitlin, and Dad were seat- tinuous cytotoxic chemotherapy and can think of, Google provides an an- ed around the bed and had listened to then 17 days of interspersed chemo swer—and often data to back it up—with Dr. van Rhee’s every word. They stared ahead of me, my hair would soon start a speed and precision that inspire con- down at the fl oor between long blinks falling out in clumps, the way it had be- fi dence, if not always comfort. Steady and deep breaths. fore. But I didn’t want to wait for it to news reports about medical break- I interrupted the silence. “If I survive fall out again, and I didn’t want this dis- throughs feed this optimistic illusion: a this, I’m going to dedicate the rest of my ease or the therapy to be the cause. This cure is near; discoveries will happen life—however long that may be—to an- time I would act. I asked my dad to buy whether or not you contribute time, tal- swering these unknowns and curing this an electric razor, and he shaved all my ent, or dollars toward them. So I had disease.” hair off , save a small strip of short hair waited on the sidelines, believing others I heard myself like Winston Churchill down the middle. I had always wanted were on the case. But that illusion was vowing to fi ght on the beaches, but my a Mohawk. no longer possible to sustain. Not when pledge was less than stirring to Caitlin Santa Claus himself was looking me in and my family. The words landed with David Fajgenbaum M’13 WG’15 is an assis- the eyes and telling me nothing would a polite thud. They each gave half a tant professor of translational medicine and materialize, gift-wrapped, to cure me. smile—a kind of smile that I had seen genetics at Penn. From Chasing My Cure by Nausea overwhelmed me, partly be- before. The one where they purse their David Fajgenbaum, copyright © 2019 by Da- cause of the chemotherapy and partly lips and close their eyes. They weren’t vid Fajgenbaum. Used by permission of Bal- because of the realization that I was interested in heroics. lantine Books, an imprint of Random House, completely alone. I was terrifi ed. This Yet this was the moment when I real- a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All was the fourth time in the last two years ized I was fi nally done with passive hope. rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be that I was approaching the precipice of Years before, I had found a quote in my reproduced or reprinted without permission death. This time, I knew that I would mother’s purse by Pope John Paul II, ar- in writing from the publisher.

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here are times in every life that en- able all that follows. Sometimes this is a single decision. Sometimes it’s a T place, perhaps one over a period of time, deceptively crucial. For several months during the mid- ’60s, several years running, we rented “The Studios,” one of the original Byrd- cliff e cottages in Woodstock, New York. Mari and I and our four hyperactive children, four and a half years apart fi rst to last, the oldest seven or eight then. I was teaching full time at Hunter College and trying desperately to write a few words of worth. Except for several ver- sions of tired graduate school essays, and a few mawkish poems, nothing I wrote found a home. Mari painted, I wrote, the children ran amok, and so did the mice. We would see mice scurrying along the rafters and late at night we could hear the fatal snap of the traps and the plunk when they fell 10 feet to the fl oor. What I wrote I sent every- where—and every scrap of it boomer- anged back, always without benefi t of human note. The New Yorker returned my stories and poems with such amaz- ing alacrity—sometimes the day I sent them—that I thought they must have, at the main post offi ce, a special Agent of Refusal. I had a shoebox fi lled with em- phatic minimalist printed rejections. We had recently suff ered a devastating fl ash fi re in the city; it had buff aloed up on a windy December afternoon from the Those Woodstock Methodist church next door, torched by a drug dealer on whom the minister had leaned. Firemen stole my father-in-law’s Summers Patek Philippe watch, uninsured; all our clothing, beds, tables, chairs were burned In an “interim time, a time without a clear or fatally smoke damaged; all of our books, my papers, and every shred of my purpose,” a writer fi nds his voice and fi shing gear, were destroyed; many of the arc of a family’s life is formed. Mari’s paintings still hung on their wires, askew, stretchers charred but intact, the By Nick Lyons canvases burned through. I had written a very bad novel whose fi ve main characters were all me, and happily it was burned to a crisp, never to be resurrected. The novel happened to be called Fire in the Straw.

12 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Illustration by Gina Triplett We came to Woodstock those few sum- with Frank and Jim to the Beaverkill— fortable with the romp of these stories I mers partly to recoup, start again. We “Mecca” for fl y fi shers, Frank said. He was had found those long summers in Wood- paid a scant $300 total for as soon as the a gaunt man with dark, old eyes, and stock—and never heard again from the crocuses came up to when it got too cold stunning pronouncements, Delphic and old scholar I had betrayed. for the pot-bellied stove to warm our toes. hilarious; and with all the pit-stops and He had advised my dissertation on Jones We knew that this year or the next, when pronouncements, the hour-and-a-half Very, a very minor New England poet we returned to our new spare apartment, trip was accomplished in nine hours. By whose poems, the poet claimed, had been I would need to take a second and per- then I could barely stand, let alone pitch dictated to him by the Holy Spirit—a less haps third full-time job, and in time I did. a fl y. Frank promptly caught two trout, earthy source than Frank. So committed Woodstock was before all that. It was an Jim and I nothing. The day was so pun- was Very to this belief that he would not interim time, a time without a clear pur- gent, unique, unforgettable, that I allow Emerson, who edited the fi rst book pose, a slack time to loaf and fail and try promptly sat at my Underwood Standard of Very’s poems, to make even elementary and let stuff happen, a time to be with and wrote it in one sitting. Somewhere changes. This prompted the only recorded children, a time to explore. in the telling of that shaggy fi sh tale witticism by the dour Emerson: “Cannot A friend introduced me to Jimmy Mul- about that long circus of a drive with the spirit parse and spell?” ligan, who drew cartoons for the New Frank and Jim, I felt a new voice that One summer Mari visited the painter Yorker, and Jim began to talk of a mythic sounded free from the academic cant I Fletcher Martin, with whom she had friend, Frank Mele, a violist and remark- had learned too well in graduate school studied at Mills College in California. able fl y fi sher. As a proposed fi shing trip and from the literary pretension in my She liked his house and then, many life- with him kept being postponed on slim stories and the mawkishsness of poems times later, we bought it and lived there grounds, the mystery of the man tripled. so common when someone discovers lit- for nearly 20 years. Those four scamps In those long Woodstock summers, 50 erature late and loves it too well. all grew into their 50s, were thick with years ago and yesterday, Marlon Brando The voice seemed nimble and earthy, the world, did interesting work. We built whisked past us on his motorcycle on the and now and then I hoped it caught the a huge new studio, attached to Fletcher’s Thruway, I fed our resident raccoon and swoop of a kingfi sher, the bright quick- small one, and Mari loved the great it mistook my fi nger for a hot dog. Mari ness of a mountain creek. Two days after space with high ceilings and skylights, painted in the cottage or plein air every I fi nished it, off it went to Field & Stream, made the best work of her life, had 10 day. It often took two or even three sitters and fi ve days after that I got back a one- exhibitions of her paintings in Chelsea, to manage our four. We drove to the old sentence note from the editor in his own and received major reviews. Then, a few Laurel House in Haines Falls, which my hand (I’d thought all the editors had for- years ago, after our 58th anniversary, grandfather had owned for many years, gotten to use them): “We like ‘Mecca’ and Mari died of cancer and two years later where I had caught anything that moved, a check for $1,000 will go out to you next our oldest son, Paul, died of melanoma. from frog to crayfi sh, newt, perch, and week.” I nearly peed my pants. And I was Suddenly I was an old man, alone in pickerel, and where I unceremoniously so encouraged that I plucked out a story that place I had come to love, waiting for gigged the fi rst trout I ever saw—but the that had crouched somewhere in my another winter to wrap around me. The creek was dry and the state had burned brain since I was seven or eight, about air on the Woodstock hill was crisp, and then bulldozed the hotel fl at and the that fi rst trout I gigged in the creek that leaves had turned crimson and ochre and forest had reclaimed its raw glory. We tumbled over the famous Kaaterskill fallen. I was awash in memories but had watched Dylan and Baez ride back and Falls, and before we returned to the gray written most of what I wanted to write. forth on Tinker Street on their motor- city, so far from the bright rivers I love, it The arc had made a fi nal turn. I saw then cycles, buoyantly young, the world poised too was accepted. with sharp clarity, when I sold my house to embrace them. We kept warm with The stories were miles from the litera- and made my move back to a great grey slab wood we bought from a young farm- ture I had found late in my life and now city, that those Woodstock summers had er who gave us four ducklings; with the taught with passion—but they were mine laid tracks on which my family rolled for colossal stupidity of a city boy, I thought own. And when Austin Warren, my great more than half a century. young ducks would like to swim and put mentor-scholar from graduate-school them in the bathtub for what was their days, told me that I must at once abandon Nick Lyons W’53 has been a frequent con- fi nal swim. I leaned toward moving water all this trout piffl e and attend to my aca- tributor to the Gazette. This essay is adapted whenever we drove past the Sawkill or demic career, I had to tell him fi rmly that from sections of Fire in the Straw; Notes on Esopus and bolted from Byrdcliff e to shfi I rather liked trout and thought Paralep- Inventing a Life, forthcoming from Skyhorse whenever I could. One day I fi nally set off tophlebia were not piffl e, and I felt com- Publishing in October 2020.

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very early age I knew exactly what I want- ed and the necessary steps to get there, and I was positive I knew how deeply satisfying it would be once I arrived. Then I went to college, where I buck- led almost immediately under the inten- sifi ed pressure of auditions and perfor- mances. This was not how it was sup- posed to go. I knew music school was supposed to weed people out. I’d just assumed it would be other weeds. And certainly not that I’d be the fi rst to get yanked from the garden. But of the three freshman viola majors in my program, I was the weakest. So I did what every aspiring artist is trained to do: I put in more and more hours of practice. Once a week I’d call my dad sobbing, unable to explain exactly why I was so over- whelmed and miserable doing the thing I had loved for as long as I could remem- ber. But I was stuck. What else was I going to do? Quit? Fail? Surely not. If I’d been taught anything as a kid, it was that the biggest bludgeon I had to beat back failure was persever- ance. We’re taught as kids to keep our commitments. Play the whole season. Practice 15 minutes a day. Show up for your weekly study group. Giving up is seen as a character fl aw, no matter the endeavor. The mentality that we can achieve anything with enough hard work—and that we have a moral obliga- I Quit tion to try, try, and try again—is part and Maybe you should, too. parcel of the American dream. Our fear of failure drives us to absurd By Rachel Friedman lengths to pretend the very act of failing is something else entirely. Silicon Valley’s relentless optimism fi lls bookstores with sure learning how to play viola a sense that we were a perfect fi t. I re- titles like The Up Side of Down: Why Fail- must have been awkward at member the feeling of falling in love. ing Well is the Key to Success and Failing fi rst: balancing an hourglass- No wonder, then, that I spent most of Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping I’m shaped wooden chamber be- my childhood planning to become a pro- Stones for Success. Fail up. Fail smart. Fail tween my eight-year-old chin and shoul- fessional musician. And with supportive forward. Poor Samuel Beckett’s out-of- der, fi guring out the right amount of bow parents, top-notch teachers, and sum- context “Fail again. Fail better” quote is pressure to avoid squeaking, teaching my mers at the vaunted Interlochen Arts bandied about so aggressively on Twitter fi ngers the unforgivingly specifi c coordi- Camp, why couldn’t I? I had talent, I had by Burning Man–going, productivity- nates of each individual note. But what I drive, and I had 10,000-hour discipline hacking tech bros that you might think remember most is feeling an immediate way before Malcolm Gladwell made that Beckett was a motivational speaker and and deep connection to my instrument, a thing. Most of all, I had a Path. From a not a depressed Irish nihilist.

14 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Illustration by Anna Heigh I was most defi nitely not failing “up” which seemed less like something I was Commitment is a good skill to cultivate, at music school. My private lessons experiencing than something I was. but maybe we should also have a manda- brought waves of nausea. Panic attacks I’m not talking about the everyday re- tory class for all college freshmen about interrupted my sleep. One morning, jections that come with trying to make a how to gracefully quit something you’ve faced with a Kreutzer etude, I was seized living in the arts (and in many fi elds). I given a good go and no longer want to by the sudden urge to break my bow in had bounced back from many a mediocre invest in. It would off er up strategies for half. What a relief it would be, I thought, audition, and music had thickened my how to disentangle yourself from your to just break it and be done once and for skin enough that later, when as a free- childhood ambitions, how to stop compar- all. Instead I put my instrument in its lance writer I started pitching ideas to ing yourself to others, and how to accept case and shakily backed away. editors, I (mostly) didn’t take rejections failure and loss as part of growing up. The American concept of failure has personally. And of course making art is How about some books that celebrate an interesting history. Before the Civil in itself a daily lesson in failure because the freedom of letting go of our dreams War, failure was a term reserved for the gap between what you envision and and moving on to other pursuits? Or that failed businesses. It meant “breaking in what you produce never fully closes. say it’s natural sometimes to hit the lim- business” (i.e., going broke). In the 19th But whenever I’ve experienced major its of our ambition, talent, or desire? How century, failure and other terms from disappointment in my adult life—quit- about we stop telling people that they fi nance slowly crept out of business jar- ting the viola, getting divorced, having a failed because they weren’t determined gon and into the ways people talked book I’d poured years into get rejected— enough? Sure, sometimes that’s true. But about themselves. Failure became more the moments when I was forced to mod- not all the time. There must be some than something that a person experi- ify the Grand Vision for my life, well, that middle ground between identity-rattling ences; it became an identity. The histo- was another story. “Follow your dreams,” despondency and all-conquering opti- rian Scott Sandage argues that by the we’re told, without a whole lot of substan- mism when it comes to failure, a space 20th century there had been a defi nitive tive advice about how to handle things where we can accept setbacks without transformation: the concept of failure not working out as planned. becoming victim to them—but also with- conjured up not merely lost business but Over the years I’ve tried reframing my out needing to mythologize them as mere also lost souls (because today, what we feelings of failure by reading spiritual stops on the way to success. do for a living is who we are). authors like Eckhart Tolle and Louise I quit viola because I no longer felt joy “We reckon our income once a year but Hay. I’m as tempted as the next neu- when I played it. Of course that can happen. audit ourselves daily, by standards of rotic New Yorker by anyone who comes A self-help book would probably encour- long-forgotten origin,” Sandage writes. along promising serenity through nonat- age me to reframe it all within a revisionist “Who thinks of the old counting house tachment, affi rmations, and positively history: one tracing my transformation when we ‘take stock’ of how we ‘spend’ manifesting my destiny. We don’t like to into a writer, as though that had been my our lives, take ‘credit’ for our gains, or talk about the experience of disappoint- actual Path. Which might have worked. try not to end up ‘third rate’ or ‘good for ment. We see it as negativity, as not spin- There was enough truth there to sustain nothing?’ Someday, we hope, ‘the bottom ning your failure as opportunity, as that delusion. But the fact was that quit- line’ will show that we ‘amount to some- breaking the Faustian pact of Instagram- ting viola was a kind of failure. I failed to thing.’ By this kind of talk we ‘balance’ fi ltered perfection, or as questioning the achieve a thing I had set out to achieve. our whole lives, not just our accounts.” fundamental American belief in the What I know now is that it’s less useful for Cast in those terms, failure is the one cause-and-eff ect relationship between me to deny the idea of failure than to learn thing to which we must never succumb. hard work and reward. Get your vision how to distance my ego from it. It’s OK that So we soldier on—succumbing instead board. Get your gratitude journal. Get I failed to become what I’d envisioned. It to the terms themselves. your can-do attitude and mantras and will likely happen again at some point in I quit viola before the end of my fresh- wash your face, girl. my life, maybe many times. And when it man year. I declared myself all washed But … I don’t know. Somewhere along does, I want to give space to my capital F up at the tender age of 19, directionless, the way I always get frustrated by the failures, and then I want to let them go. purposeless, ordinary. Looking back, I premise that we have a mind-over-mat- can see that part of what hit me so hard ter relationship with everything from From And Then We Grew Up by Rachel Fried- was being disabused of the naive belief our illnesses to our love lives to our fi - man C’03 G’07, published by Penguin Books, that my plan for my adult life would work nances. I don’t want to be a victim of my an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a out exactly as I envisioned. In the mo- circumstances, but surely I don’t have division of Penguin Random House, LLC. ment, though, what stung was failure— control over everything. Copyright © 2019 by Rachel Friedman.

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Photo by Tommy Leonardi C’89 May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 17 GAZETTEER Coronavirus Response “I regret that eated in his offi ce in the and to ensure that graduat- ment, “Without the Penn this semester has late afternoon of March ing students can do so on Relays, springtime in Phila- 11, the Reverend Charles time and without delay or delphia will not be the same.” been upended in S L. “Chaz” Howard C’00 interruption,” the notice The same day as the Penn so many ways. had a sense of what was com- read. “As disruptive as this Relays announcement— ing when his phone buzzed. might be on the surface, we March 16—Associate Provost But in our lifetime Silence fi lled the air as he will do everything in our and Chief Wellness Offi cer picked it up and studied a power to minimize its inter- Benoit Dubé informed the the world has not message from President Amy ference with learning, which University community that Gutmann and Provost Wen- is the reason we are all here.” three undergraduate stu- faced a challenge dell E. Pritchett Gr’97, the lat- The announcement rippled dents had tested positive for as unique and est in a string of increasingly across campus in the form of COVID-19 after traveling urgent notifi cations regard- postponements and cancella- abroad for Spring Break. complicated as the ing Penn’s response to the tions. Student performances Hours later, perhaps the big- novel coronavirus outbreak. and scholarly events like the gest domino fell as the Uni- one we currently When he fi nished reading Silfen Forum and Perry versity, following recommen- confront.” the email, the University World House Spring Collo- dations from the Centers for Chaplain looked up and took quium were put on hold. Se- Disease Control and Preven- a deep breath. “It will be a niors would miss their fi nal tion (CDC) concerning public in the fall, as well as fi nding year and a semester we talk Spring Fling, juniors their gatherings, cancelled this alternative dates for alumni to about for a long time,” he Hey Day festivities. The Dai- year’s on-campus Com- celebrate their class reunions. said quietly. ly Pennsylvanian paused its mencement ceremony and But later in March, the Univer- Similar shockwaves were print editions for the fi rst Alumni Weekend. sity opted to pause the plan- reverberating throughout time since World War II. The Commencement and other ning process for all new in- campus at that moment. Ivy League cancelled all graduation events will be person, on-campus alumni Shortly before states and cit- spring sports following its moved to a virtual format events and programs for the ies were put on lockdown and decision to cancel its post- that’s scheduled to be broad- fall due to uncertainty about terms like social distancing season basketball tourna- cast online on the same dates the timeline for recovery. entered the common par- ment [See “Sports,” this is- as had been originally “I regret that this semester lance, Penn’s March 11 update sue], before other college planned, from May 16–18. has been upended in so detailed seemingly unthink- athletic conferences, the “Commencement is such an many ways,” the Penn presi- able changes the University NCAA, and major profes- important tradition at Penn, a dent continued in the March administration deemed nec- sional leagues followed suit. time of abundant joy and 16 notice. “But in our lifetime essary for the remainder of And the Penn Relays—the pride, where we all publicly the world has not faced a the spring semester. Students nation’s oldest and largest celebrate the extraordinary challenge as unique and currently out of town for track meet, which last year achievements of our gradu- complicated as the one we Spring Break that week were celebrated its 125th consecu- ates,” Gutmann wrote. “While currently confront.” told not to return to campus, tive running [“Penn Relays at it will not be the same as our Although the University and those who remained in 125,” Jul|Aug 2019]—was traditional ceremony, we are began sending out coronavi- campus housing would need halted for the fi rst time. committed to fi nding the best rus updates in late January, it to depart by March 15 (later The Relays, which had way possible to recognize the wasn’t until early March that pushed to March 17). And all been held against the back- achievements of the Class of the crisis would come into classroom teaching would be drop of both world wars, had 2020, and we will strive to sharper focus, with the Uni- moved to virtual instruction been scheduled to run from make the virtual event as versity suspending all travel beginning March 23, follow- April 23–25, and although meaningful and celebratory to China, Italy, Iran, and ing a one-week extension to tentative plans were in the as the circumstances permit.” South Korea in accordance Spring Break. works for Franklin Field to Gutmann added that the with CDC guidelines; advis- “We will work diligently to host a smaller track meet administration would ex- ing Penn students on study ensure that every Penn stu- later this year to make up for plore the possibility of creat- abroad programs to return dent continues to receive a the loss, Penn Relays director ing an on-campus celebra- home; and asking all Spring high-quality Penn education, Dave Johnson said in a state- tion for this year’s graduates Break travelers “to weigh the

18 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 CURRICULUM

Navigating necessity of any upcoming University housing who are Uncertainty travel and understand the “absolutely unable to return risks involved, even beyond home for personal reasons,” With Penn students scattered across the globe, common educa- the CDC risk assessment.” setting up an online applica- tional experiences have been in short supply this spring semester. Two days after the March 11 tion process to remain on But a sizable number—close to 2,000—signed up to share in an announcement on operational campus. (According to the online course examining the impacts of the novel coronavirus pan- changes for the rest of the se- Daily Pennsylvanian, approx- demic and other major disruptions from a variety of perspectives. mester, all University-related imately 450 students were Offered through the Wharton School but open to undergraduate travel was prohibited. And the approved to continue living and graduate students from across the University, “Epidemics, Natu- following day, a message from on campus, out of a little ral Disasters, and Geopolitics: Managing Global Business and Finan- Pritchett and Vice Provost for more than 1,100 applicants.) cial Uncertainty” was developed by management professor Mauro University Life Valarie Swain- For some students—particu- Guillen and incorporated presentations by many leading scholars at Cade McCoullum was sent to larly international and fi rst- Wharton and other schools. The half-credit course was scheduled to students mandating the cessa- generation, low-income ones— run for six weeks from March 25 until April 29 (after this issue of the tion of all group activities, leaving University City was Gazette went to press). including parties. “Any stu- not a viable option and re- “We are proud to launch this course as it draws directly from the current geopolitical climate and will offer students insights into this dent, student organization, or maining left them with a se- crisis and all types of high-risk events,” Guillen said in a Wharton group of students found to be ries of unexpected challenges. announcement. “I’m thrilled to take part in this course, which was congregating on campus, or Although she was denied developed very quickly and through the generous support of profes- off campus, will face immedi- her appeal to remain in on- sors and staff who understand the urgency.” ate intervention by Penn Po- campus housing, Amira In an interview with the Sirius satellite radio program Wharton Busi- lice,” the notice read. Chowdhury C’22 opted not to ness Daily, Guillen explained that he had put together the course at Though there was initially return home to Los Angeles, the request of the dean’s offi ce, modeled on a similar effort he spear- some confusion on the issue, where she shares a two-bed- headed in the wake of the 2008 fi nancial crisis. He said the course room apartment with her par- Pritchett would clarify in a would attempt to give students a “360-degree view, from the macro to March 18 note to parents that ents, younger sister, and the micro, and then across different levels, exploring all the different the University was “not order- grandparents. Citing fears of ramifi cations of an emergency situation such as this.” ing students who live in pri- placing additional fi nancial Guillen said that each of the six sessions would feature two faculty pre- vate residences to leave”—but strain on her parents and the sentations. Among the scheduled speakers were vice provost for global it was strongly encouraging potential of infecting her older initiatives and chair of the department of medical ethics and health policy that anyone in off -campus relatives, she scraped together Ezekiel Emanuel on the nature and spread of the virus, fi nance professor housing return home if pos- $400 in savings to secure a Jeremy Siegel on the response of fi nancial markets, and outgoing Wharton sible. Meanwhile, Penn Resi- last-minute sublet to remain dean Geoffrey Garrett on leadership in emergencies. dential Services pledged to in University City. But now she Other planned presentations focused on issues including supply support students living in has to “manage constant mes- chain disruptions, teleworking and telecommuting, “emotional conta- sages about subletting, mov- gion” in a public health crisis, incentives for promoting risk-avoidant ing out, applying for aid, fi gur- behavior, crisis management, potential changes in international rela- How to Help ing out how to buy groceries, tions and borders, and possible adaptations from climate law with and my assignments.” regard to legal and insurance issues arising from the pandemic. From donating to various Sevgi Selin Okcu W’22, who COVID-19 special response hails from Turkey, decided to funds to promoting job and move in with a friend in sub- study [the way I used to] be- While Vincent decided to stay internship opportunities, there urban Philadelphia rather cause right now, I don’t have a in her off -campus apartment, are several ways for Penn than deal with fl ying home space all to myself,” she said. she noted that “University alumni to help current and other obstacles that inter- For seniors like Naeche City feels like a ghost town” students affected by the national students might en- Vincent C’20, one of the and lamented that her family pandemic—and support Penn counter doing all of their toughest things to digest was won’t get to cheer her on at Medicine’s efforts. Visit coursework online (like spotty the list of all that’s been lost: Commencement this May powerofpenn.upenn.edu/ Wi-Fi connections and diff er- a fi nal Fling, all-nighters (though she hopes that can ways-to-help-penn-during- ent time zones). But that still with friends, bar hopping still happen later this year). covid-19 for more details. proved problematic. “I can’t from Smokes to Cavanaugh’s. “My parents have never seen

May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 19 GAZETTEER Kislak Symposium

Locust Walk, so having them And among the Penn insti- on campus for even a small tutions moving to virtual Book Hunter ceremony would be incred- platforms were Counseling A 10,000-volume collection ibly special,” she said. and Psychological Services Through all the disrup- (CAPS), cultural centers, donated to the Penn Libraries reveals tions of normal life, glim- campus ministries, Chaz mers of hope could still be Howard’s chaplain offi ce, the deep connections between found around the University and other places that help generations of black women community. students manage their men- Penn Medicine mobilized tal health in what has been a writers and readers. quickly, expediting construc- time of tremendous anxiety. tion of the Pavilion at the “A lot of people rely on rou- Hospital of the University of tine and the importance of Pennsylvania in a rush to being with people,” said How- make nearly 120 rooms avail- ard, who Gutmann has able by mid-April (15 months praised as a fi gure who “min- ahead of its scheduled open- isters hope, love, and sup- ing), establishing and staffi ng port” to the entire Penn com- drive-thru COVID-19 test sites munity [“The Idea of Love,” in West Philadelphia and May|Jun 2018]. “And to not be Radnor, and launching the with your best friends, or Center for Research on Coro- your coworkers, is a real dis- navirus and Other Emerging ruption to some people.” Pathogens, headed by Perel- As Howard navigated his man School of Medicine mi- own stresses—like adapting crobiology professors Susan the Penn course he teaches to Weiss and Frederic Bushman. the Zoom video conferencing Gutmann announced that software, and looking after the University would contrib- his own three children with ute $4 million in emergency their schools closed—the fi nancial assistance to Penn chaplain confronted the dif- employees, third-party con- fi cult task of fi guring out tract workers, and University what to tell Penn students City businesses impacted by dealing with the newfound the crisis. That contribution anguish of a global pandemic henever I saw a very small—selection of was in addition to the $1 mil- wreaking havoc on their lives. book by a black those volumes, put out on lion employee assistance fund But even as the outbreak woman author, I display in Van Pelt-Dietrich announced by Penn Medicine, continued to grow with no “Wthought to myself: Library, she added, almost to and the continuation of pay end in sight, Howard has ‘Me, buy,’” Joanna Banks said herself: “I bought just about for Bon Appetit contract din- tried his best to dig out a sliv- with a chuckle. On this everything I could fi nd.” ing workers through the end er of optimism from the rub- Thursday night in late Febru- The following day, Banks of the semester. ble of uncertainty. ary, the 77-year-old book col- would join about 100 partici- Professors and students “It will pass,” he said. “It lector had left her home out- pants for the 2020 Jay I. Kislak alike worked quickly to tran- doesn’t mean you don’t limp side Washington, DC, to Symposium, “Black Women sition to online instruction out of it, and it doesn’t mean come to Penn for a celebra- Writing Across Genres in the (which has been extended to there aren’t real casualties, tion of her gift to the Penn Late 20th Century.” It focused include Penn’s summer ses- but the page will turn. We’ll Libraries of some 10,000 on about 3,000 titles included sions), with the University be back.” —DZ books, periodicals, record- in her gift—from treatises to granting students the fl ex- ings, and photographs re- memoirs, from children’s ti- ibility to take any course on a Beatrice Forman C’22 lated to African American tles to cookbooks—written by pass/fail basis. contributed to this report. authors. As she surveyed a— black women.

20 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Illustration by Melinda Beck LEADERSHIP

Cosponsored by the Center the collection “were not for Africana Studies and the locked away behind closed Erika H. James Named Wolf Humanities Center, the doors, so that no child would Wharton Dean symposium was curated by have access to them.” doctoral candidates Destiny When Banks was growing In February Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Crockett and Kiana Murphy. up in Louisville, Kentucky, Wendell Pritchett Gr’97 announced that Erika H. James would Lynne Farrington—senior such books were a rarity. be the next dean of the Wharton School. James curator in the Kislak Center “The only black image I will be the fi rst woman and the fi rst person of color for Special Collections, Rare saw in a kids’ book was to serve in that position. She’ll begin her new role Books, and Manuscripts, Little Black Sambo,” she on July 1, succeeding Geoffrey Garrett, who an- which will house the Banks said. As an adult, “I be- nounced last year that he would be moving on to collection—curated the pop- gan hunting for other become dean of USC’s Marshall School of up exhibition. titles that featured black Business [“Gazetteer,” Sep|Oct 2019]. Barbara Savage—the Geral- characters written by black Gutmann called James “exceptionally well prepared to lead dine R. Segal Professor of authors,” she added. “It was Wharton into the next exciting chapter of its storied history,” American Social Thought in such a thrill to fi nd another praising her as an “award-winning scholar and teacher and a the Department of Africana book by another author I strong, proven leader” who has been a “passionate and visible Studies, and a co-organizer of hadn’t known before.” champion of the power of business and business education to She started with black men authors—“there were just so positively transform communities locally, nationally, and globally.” “Every one of many more around”—but by James was previously dean of Emory University’s Goizueta these books the early 1980s, African Amer- Business School, where she was credited with increasing the ican women such as Alice faculty by 25 percent and redesigning the undergraduate brings back Walker, Toni Morrison, Terry business curriculum, among other advances. Earlier she McMillan, and Banks’ favorite, was senior associate dean for executive education at the whom you loved the sci-fi -penning, MacArthur- University of Virginia Darden School of Business. She serves winning Octavia Butler, were on the SurveyMonkey board and the Graduate Management and where you placing black female protago- Admissions Council and has been included in Black Enterprise were when you nists at the top of the best sell- magazine’s list of Top 10 Women of Power in Education and ers list. In 1984, Banks formed Ebony’s Power 100. were reading it.” the reading group that Savage “Erika has consistently and constructively drawn upon her would soon join. own scholarship in the areas of leadership development, the symposium—has known During the symposium, a organizational behavior, gender and racial diversity, and crisis Banks for more than 35 years. successor to these pioneers, leadership, applying her own insights into human behavior to They met in a book club dedi- Department of English senior foster a work culture that allows people to thrive personally and cated to reading works by lecturer and author Lorene professionally,” Pritchett said in the announcement. black women authors, and it Cary C’78 G’78 [“Her General “This is an exciting time to be in business education,” James was Savage who fi rst suggest- Tubman,” Mar|Apr 2020], ed that the Kislak Center said that when she saw a said. “The scope and platform of the Wharton School provides might be the proper home for book of hers in the exhibition, an opportunity to create far reaching impact for students, Banks’ collection. “I almost cried to be in their scholars, and the business community.” “I’m relieved that I don’t company.” Observing that have to be a steward any- such books “invite the white more,” Banks explained dur- gaze, but do not depend on “For that I thank you, countering these writers at ing the symposium. “I don’t it,” she added: “This collec- Joanna. I know obsession. the handful of black-owned miss the books at all—I’ve al- tion is a memoir itself. Every Admire it. Love it.” bookstores in DC and ways believed that when you one of these books brings In conversation with through conferences at plac- give something away, you let it back whom you loved and Banks, Crockett and Murphy es like Howard University. go fully.” Her only condition, where you were when you invited her to share memo- With dry humor, Banks re- she continued, was that the were reading it. These books ries about her experiences in called receiving phone calls 1,000 or so children’s books in come unfi ltered, open, free. collecting, reading, and en- at home from scholars re-

Photo courtesy University Communications May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 21 GAZETTEER Intellectual Autobiography

searching certain of her es (including Harriet’s Book- books. “I’d get up, go to my shop in the Fishtown section shelves, read to them what of Philadelphia, the Colored they wanted, and put the Girls Museum in German- book back on the shelf.” town, and the Brooklyn-based And she also discussed how collectibles shop BLK MKT her reading habits have Vintage); and research pre- changed over the years. “In sentations by Columbia Uni- my younger days, I could get versity graduate student through a 400-page book in a Imani Ford, Crockett, and sitting,” she said. “I started Murphy, who spoke of learn- and then stayed till the end. ing from her experience cull- Now, I give a book 20 pages to ing through Banks’ material engage me, tops!” When that “abundance and the Crockett asked if there was sheer joy of a thing can be a “anything she ever avoided or strategy behind collecting.” wasn’t interested in,” her Closing speaker Farah Jas- prompt retort was: “Anything mine Griffi n, a former Penn with a title like ‘The Black English faculty member who Women’s Guide to Getting is now chair of African Ameri- and Keeping a Black Man.’” can and African Diaspora In an audience Q&A, a local Studies at Columbia, summed high school student won- up the symposium by prais- dered if any of the books in ing these varied eff orts for her collection were on “in- “extending us into the future” equality in America.” Banks and demonstrating that ar- paused for a moment before chives, in whatever form, are answering, “All of them.” not repositories of dead mate- Mind Traveler Another questioner want- rial but living places “to be ed to know more about encountered again.” A new essay collection shows Banks’ penchant for cook- Savage and Banks shared that, though homebound at 92, books. “They’re fascinating the last words. “This has to read. They’re history,” she been a celebration of wom- pioneering medical sociologist and responded, adding that even en’s friendship—and my love bioethicist Renée C. Fox remains as she has divested herself of for Joanna,” said Savage. her enormous collection, “I “And mine for Barbara,” “unconstrained by constraints.” have to admit that I’ve added Banks. bought 13 new cookbooks As the two women hugged, since making the donation.” Banks looked momentarily en minutes before a and the former chair of Penn’s Her favorite recipe? “If you bemused. “I want to meet the March interview at her Department of Sociology, Fox want to show me some love, Joanna Banks that everyone Rittenhouse Square is 92, so she faces a high risk make me caramel pound here has been talking about,” T apartment, Renée C. Fox from COVID-19. In her case, cake. And don’t caramelize she said. —JoAnn Greco calls to cancel. The coronavi- there’s an aggravating factor: some white sugar. Start with rus is just starting to dominate the new pandemic has trig- dark brown sugar, the kind The exhibit is scheduled to be on the news, and Fox prefers to gered old anxieties about an- that’s about my color!” view until July 31. Currently, the talk by phone. “I think it other crippling disease. The symposium concluded Penn Libraries is closed until fur- would be good for me to limit “It reminds me of the polio with a series of panels featur- ther notice because of COVID-19, my contacts,” she explains. epidemics which we had in my ing scholars on black queer but photos can be found at the Her trepidation is under- youth, to which I succumbed,” studies; entrepreneurs run- Penn Libraries website’s exhibits standable. A pioneering medi- she says. “I walked around for ning black-oriented business- and events page. cal sociologist and bioethicist, weeks not feeling well, and

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Tuition and Aid fi nally came down with an al- Albert Camus’s novel, The essay titled “Beyond for 2020–21 most fatal version of polio, Plague, predicting that the Borders,” “were both which involved total paralysis rats will come again. caring for these patients Academic Year and [aff ected] my ability to “Plagues” also touches on and conducting auda- swallow and to breathe.” her own near-fatal bout with cious, path-making re- $53,166 Stricken at 17, Fox recovered bulbospinal polio and the re- search on them.” Her Undergraduate Tuition with the help of intensive luctance of New York hospi- 1959 book, Experiment physical therapy. But she still tals to admit a patient so ill Perilous: Physicians and has muscle defi ciencies, main- and infectious. She recalls Patients Facing the Un- $16,784 ly on the right side of her body. with gratitude the dedication known, is considered an Room and Board In recent years, Fox has of an African American nurse early landmark of medi- stopped traveling internation- at Sydenham Hospital in Har- cal sociology. “The fi eld ally, and even before the pan- lem. “Putting her head beside did not exist at the $6,876 Fees demic her mobility problems mine on the pillow, she time,” she says. had curtailed her ability to breathed every breath with Fox taught at Barnard venture from her apartment. me as my breathing and swal- College and Harvard $76,826 Yet physical limitations lowing became more la- before coming to Penn Total (3.9 percent annual increase) haven’t tamped down her in- bored,” Fox writes. “It was in 1969—in part, she tellectual restlessness or urge because of her courageous says, through the inter- to write. In her new essay col- willingness to expose herself vention of the anthro- $256 million lection, Explorations of a to the contagiousness of polio pologist Margaret Mead. Total Undergraduate Financial Aid Mind-Traveling Sociologist in this way, and her extraordi- “She was a person who (3.65 percent annual increase) (Anthem Press), Fox applies nary devotion to my care, that watched young people, her ethnographic methods to I survived that night.” and I was one of the the routines of her daily life A New York City native, Fox many young people she had ining societies through the and documents her ongoing would go on to graduate taken note of,” Fox says. Al- lens of their medical systems. engagement with a wide range from Smith College and, in bert J. Stunkard, then-chair of Inspired by Belgian doctors of people and issues. 1954, receive a doctorate in Penn’s Department of Psy- at Peter Bent Brigham, she Beginning with a survey of sociology from Radcliff e, chiatry, had invited Mead to focused for a time on the cul- her apartment, with its mid- then Harvard’s sister school. join the University’s faculty. turally heterogeneous coun- century modern furniture and “At that time, if you were a As Fox recalls, “Mead said, ‘I try of Belgium. Her friend- rich collection of souvenirs, woman, you could not get a am not coming, but Renée ship with Willy De Craemer, awards, and photographs, Fox Harvard degree,” Fox recalls. Fox is available—do some- a Belgian sociologist and Je- turns her gaze progressively “When I got an honorary de- thing about it.’ And he did.” suit priest, facilitated her outward. She discusses her gree later in life from Har- From 1972 to 1978, Fox research in the Democratic building’s helpful staff , en- vard, I was hoping they chaired Penn’s Department of Republic of the Congo, which counters with her own physi- would ask me to make a little Sociology, making her “one of had been a Belgian colony cians, her cross-cultural re- speech, which they didn’t.” the fi rst women to be a chair until 1960. One of her inter- search, recent American poli- She would have managed an of a department at Penn,” she ests was the “magical reli- tics, and her enduring passion allusion to that long-ago says. She currently holds the gious practices” of mid-1960s for teaching. slight, she says. titles of Annenberg Professor Congolese rebels, who be- One essay, “Plagues,” in- It was at Harvard that Fox Emerita of the Social Scienc- lieved their rituals would spired by the lethal Ebola out- met her mentor, the eminent es, Emerita Senior Fellow of help win battles and protect break in West Africa, seems sociologist Talcott Parsons. the Center for Bioethics, and them from injury. In 1994, eerily prescient. “The name of Her doctoral research, at the Professor Emerita of Sociol- Fox published In the Belgian the game is not to conquer Peter Bent Brigham Hospital ogy in the Department of So- Château: The Spirit and Cul- infectious diseases—it’s to get in Boston, focused on interac- ciology and the Schools of ture of a European Society in ahead of the next one,” Fox tions between physicians and Medicine and Nursing. an Age of Change. says, noting that the essay desperately ill patients in the Over the years, Fox has At 65, Fox began two de- concludes with a quotation metabolic research ward. The conducted research in Eu- cades of research on the hu- from the fi nal sentence of physicians, she writes in an rope, Asia, and Africa, exam- manitarian group Doctors

May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 23 Sports Ernie Beck congratulates AJ Brodeur GAZETTEER after Brodeur passed Beck to become the all-time leading scorer in Penn men’s basketball history.

Without Borders, which, in him on TV. I love his moves, 1999, won the Nobel Peace and he’s a wonderful passer.” Prize. She says she values the Although it’s diffi cult to organization’s “cross-cultural compare players from diff er- outlook and conviction,” ent eras (and also to compare which she shares, and its “cul- career stats, since Beck was ture of debate” and self-criti- only eligible to play three cism. She detailed her fi ndings seasons on varsity), Brodeur in a 2014 book, Doctors With- is, in many ways, a fi tting out Borders: Humanitarian choice to rise to the top of Quests, Impossible Dreams of Penn’s scoring chart. Like Médecins Sans Frontières. She Beck, the senior was a bru- also has co-authored, with tally effi cient interior player Judith P. Swazey, two books on who had great footwork in organ donation, transplants, the post, wore down defend- and dialysis. ers, and always got a good Although she is “no longer shot. And on the other end, able to go to the fi eld in a he was a true rim protector— physical sense,” Fox says she the “best defensive player in remains “connected with all the league,” according to of these contexts in which I head coach Steve Donahue. have done research.” Because Over the years, his old- she also has been “a Teacher school moves garnered him a with a capital T all my life,” reputation as something of a she is in frequent contact Substance over Style throwback. ESPN commenta- with generations of her stu- tor Fran Fraschilla once tweet- dents, dating back to her Without any flashiness, AJ Brodeur ed that Brodeur has an “old years at Barnard. leaves his mark as an all-time guy at the Y” type of game. The writer Anne Fadiman “I love that,” laughs Bro- describes Fox, in the essay col- Penn basketball great. deur, who grew up modeling lection’s foreword, as someone his game after former San who has refused “to be con- Antonio Spurs star Tim Dun- strained by constraints.” She itting six rows above the points for his college ca- can, a fundamentally sound adds that the Belgian novelist Penn basketball bench, a reer—two more than the center who won fi ve NBA Jan-Albert Goris has praised silver-haired 88-year-old red-sweatered gentleman, championships without Fox as having moed, the Flem- S man in a red sweater Ernie Beck W’53, had scored much pizzazz. “I think that ish word for courage. clapped politely when, with from 1950–53. sets you apart from the rest, “I can’t say that about my- just under 10 minutes re- Until that moment, Beck in a world where everyone is self,” says Fox, while citing maining in the Quakers’ reg- had been Penn’s all-time ca- trying to make spectacular the compliment. “But I think ular-season fi nale on March reer points leader for a plays or shoot threes. Keep- that’s not an exaggeration. I 7, senior AJ Brodeur set a whopping 67 years—the lon- ing it simple around the rim, did all these things that were screen, slipped behind a Co- gest-standing scoring record being effi cient—I think that’s very audacious, but I’m not a lumbia defender, received a of any NCAA Division I pro- something that’s going away. very brave person, I don’t bounce pass from classmate gram in the country. It’s such a useful and eff ec- think. Right now, for exam- Devon Goodman, and calmly “Well, records are made to tive way to play the game.” ple, I’m not feeling very se- fi nished a layup at the rim. be broken,” says Beck, who Beck appeared to agree. rene about the pandemic. In almost any other situa- led the Quakers to the 1953 When the top two scorers in But I guess if I’m called upon tion, it would have been a NCAA Tournament before a Penn basketball history em- to do something that was nondescript play in a com- seven-year career in the braced at the Palestra after the relevant, I would do it.” fortable victory. But that NBA. “I can’t complain. I like March 7 game, Beck congratu- —Julia M. Klein basket gave Brodeur 1,829 [Brodeur] as a player. I watch lated the senior but made sure

24 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Photo by Dave Zeitlin By the Numbers to tell him there was still work career was still nothing short to be done. That win over Co- of spectacular. In addition to lumbia, after all, clinched his points record (1,832), Bro- 998 Penn’s spot in the four-team deur played and started every Total points Devon Goodman scored in four years on the men’s Ivy League Tournament, game over four years (119) to basketball team. Had the Ivy League Tournament not been scheduled to be held the fol- leave as the program leader in cancelled, the senior guard would have almost certainly become the lowing weekend at Harvard. both of those categories. He 42nd member of the program’s 1,000-point club. He ranked second But so much was about to also set records in blocked on the team in scoring the last two seasons, behind AJ Brodeur. change. Three days after shots (196) and fi eld goals Penn’s 85–65 win over Colum- made (752) and was third all- bia, the Ivy League canceled time in rebounds (928) and 17.4 its tournament due to the CO- sixth in assists (390). Among The points-per-game average of freshman Kayla Padilla, who burst VID-19 outbreak, the fi rst ath- his most impressive feats: onto the scene for the women’s basketball team. Only Princeton letic conference to do so. Feel- Brodeur, who made a habit of center Bella Alarie—one of the best players in league history—had ing like his college career was executing perfect backdoor a higher scoring average in the Ivies. Padilla, the Ivy League Rookie snatched away prematurely, passes from the top of the key, of the Year, ranked sixth nationally in scoring among all freshmen. Brodeur was angry and frus- led the Ivies in assists this trated—emotions that would season with 5.2 per game. soon be put into a new light “That’s defi nitely one thing we’ll never see again in this 2 when all other games, includ- New coaches hired by Penn over a four-day stretch in late March. ing the NCAA Tournament, league—the ability to play as Meredith Schamun was tapped to lead the women’s volleyball ground to a halt as well. “At physical as he did on the low program after assistant coaching stints at Villanova, Tulane, and UCF. fi rst, it was a why me? situa- block and have the ability to Casey Brown will take over the women’s soccer team fresh off being tion,” he says. “Now it’s a lot lead the league in assists,” named the 2019 Patriot League Coach of the Year while at Holy Cross. more serious and I’m glad says Donahue, who’s called everyone’s really coming to- Brodeur the most “complete” gether to fi ght this thing.” player he’s ever coached. Yet even if college seniors “And it wasn’t even close. 19 from around the country That’s unheard of. … I look at Years John Ceralde spent at Penn before resigning from his share his pain, it hasn’t a lot of high-level analytics, position as head women’s gymnastics coach on March 19. He was stopped Brodeur from won- and there’s really no one like the team’s assistant coach from 2001–06, before serving as dering what might have him in the country.” head coach for the past 14 seasons. His teams won fi ve Ivy been. After winning their Donahue had known for a Classic titles, the most recent one coming this February. fi nal three regular-season while that Brodeur could be- games, could a Quakers team come a special college basket- the culture of a program that ed by a huge upset of defend- led by seniors Brodeur, Good- ball player. He started recruit- had dealt with four straight ing national champion Villa- man, and Ryan Betley, and ing him while still coaching at losing seasons. nova. And this year, his steady- Ivy League Rookie of the Year Boston College, and those As a freshman in 2016–17, he ing leadership on a team rav- Jordan Dingle, have won two early contacts paid off when helped the Quakers overcome aged by injuries proved critical more to capture the Ivy tour- Brodeur, a Massachusetts na- an 0–6 start in league play to as the Quakers reeled off im- ney crown for the second tive, spurned Harvard, Yale, qualify for the inaugural Ivy pressive early-season wins time in three years? and several high-major pro- Tournament, where they near- over Alabama and Providence “We were playing in such a grams to become the center- ly stunned top-seeded Princ- before making a dramatic way that I don’t think there piece of Donahue’s fi rst re- eton in the fi rst round. The push to make the Ivy League was anyone in the league cruiting class at Penn. following season, Penn Tournament, as they had done that could have beaten us,” Starting with his fi rst snapped an 11-year drought to the previous season. Brodeur says. “We were play- game, when he became the win the Ivy League and make Brodeur capped it all off by ing the best basketball we fi rst Penn freshman to record a long-awaited return to the being named the 2019–20 Ivy had played all year.” a double-double in his debut, NCAA Tournament. In his ju- League Co-Player of the Year. Even with his fi nal season Brodeur not only put up nior campaign, Brodeur led “When he picked us, I had a cut short, Brodeur’s college huge numbers but changed Penn to a Big 5 title, highlight- sense we had a chance to

May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 25 GAZETTEER Sports

have one of our all-time great players,” Donahue says. “And Dashed Dreams I sensed we needed to make this fun again as we started When sports stopped, out went the championship goals to build [the program] back. of standout seniors like Gabby Rosenzweig and Nia Akins. And here’s a kid that’s a great player who really has fun playing basketball. That was a big part of how we were ia Akins had just landed senior women’s lacrosse star head coach Karin Corbett able to turn the corner.” in Albuquerque, New Gabby Rosenzweig. “Espe- and the other coaches called Donahue believes Brodeur Mexico. Penn baseball cially because the Ivy them into the Dunning can play at the next level, N players were warming up League was fi rst—we felt Coaches’ Center to break the pointing out to NBA scouts for a game in Boca Raton, kind of blindsided.” news. “I kind of knew based that “I think what gets lost in Florida. The Penn men’s la- While many students were on their faces,” Rosenzweig all this is he’s a very good crosse team was in the middle home for Spring Break, says. “It’s just crazy how you athlete.” The Penn coach sees of a practice inside Franklin Rosenzweig and her team- can go from normal and fi ne a path for the soon-to-be Field, from which the wom- mates had a “full day of la- to that upset in an instant.” Wharton graduate that in- en’s lacrosse team was getting crosse” on March 11, before The team still went to Rohr’s volves playing in the NBA G ready to board a bus. the Ivy League indeed be- family home for one last din- League, catching the eye of ner together, but Rosenzweig some team looking for a “re- and the rest of the seniors ally good role player,” and stayed back before joining making the end of an NBA them later. They needed some roster. Brodeur has consid- extra time in the locker room ered playing in Europe too, “just to gather ourselves,” she but it’s hard to set long-term says. When they left, Rosenz- goals given how the world weig noticed the men’s lacrosse might look on the other side team still practicing, even after of the pandemic. head coach Mike Murphy had For now, he just wants to told the players, in the middle fi nd a way to keep working out on his own and thinking back to his fi nal game in college—in “It’s just crazy which he not only became Penn’s all-time scoring leader how you can go but also passed Geoff Owens from normal and C’01 (who was in the building too) to set the career blocked fine to that upset shots record and top it off by No matter where Penn’s came the fi rst athletic confer- becoming the fi rst Penn player spring-sport athletes were at ence to cancel all spring in an instant.” ever to record a triple-double the time they learned their sports that afternoon. There (with 21 points, 10 rebounds, seasons—and, in some cases, was a lifting session in the of the practice, that the season and 10 assists). their athletic careers—had morning, followed by a two- had ended after only fi ve It was the perfect ending he ended months earlier than hour practice and then a fi lm games, scuttling the Quakers’ didn’t realize was an ending. expected due to the COV- breakdown of Duke, which chance to defend their Ivy “Going back and thinking ID-19 pandemic, they had to the Quakers were scheduled League title. “That was prob- about it, that’s the way I’d process the stunning news to play on March 14. ably what I would have done want to go out,” he says. on their own terms. They were about to get on a too in that situation,” she says, “Now I think it’s even cooler “When it fi rst happened, it bus for a team dinner at smiling as she watched them to have had that game.” —DZ was one of the hardest days, freshman Izzy Rohr’s subur- play on the Franklin Field turf honestly, in my life,” says ban Philadelphia home when just a little bit longer.

26 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Photos courtesy Penn Athletics Gabby Rosenzweig (facing page) and Nia Akins (below) set records in their respective sports but had their senior seasons cut short.

For Nia Akins, one of the before ever getting on the the NCAA will grant an extra times,” Akins says. “We’ll still greatest runners in Penn his- track, the senior has man- year of eligibility to all stu- get together in the future to tory, it was a double whammy; aged to keep her spirits re- dent-athletes in spring sports celebrate the success the pro- fi rst she learned that the markably high. “We really whose seasons were cancelled gram has had the last couple spring track season would don’t have anything to be because of the COVID-19 out- of years. It just probably never start, and the next day disappointed over,” she says. break. But the Ivy League re- won’t be any time soon.” news broke that the NCAA “This was something really leased a statement that its Rosenzweig, too, has plenty would cancel its Indoor Track out of our control.” “existing eligibility policies of good times to remember, & Field Championships. Akins As a nursing student, Akins will remain in place, includ- helping the Quakers win two had just arrived in Albuquer- understood the rationale be- que for that event, which had hind the NCAA’s decision and been scheduled for March 13– is now excited to work in “We’ll still get together in the future to celebrate the success the program has had the last couple of years.”

ing its longstanding practice Ivy League championships that athletic opportunities are and continuing the program’s for undergraduates.” That streak of consecutive NCAA means the only ways for a Tournament appearances Penn spring-sport athlete to (now at 13). And in the fi ve gain back the season they lost games that were played this would be to scale back their year, she got to enjoy some coursework to delay gradua- huge personal accomplish- tion by a year, or potentially ments, setting the program transfer to a diff erent school.) record for career points in a For Akins, the cancellation February 22 win over Johns of the spring season “hit Hopkins and scoring four 14, where she was favored to healthcare and perhaps “help hardest for me,” because she goals versus Loyola in a March win the 800-meter run. fi ght this” pandemic. She’s relishes the time spent with 7 showdown between two “I did feel like it could have also considering her running teammates and she believes teams in the NCAA Top 10. been a special performance for options and may train for the she could have been a part of That game had extra special me,” says Akins, who had been Summer Olympics—which multiple winning relay teams meaning for Rosenzweig; her the national runner-up in the will now be held in 2021, after at the Penn Relays, which was younger sister, Livy, plays for 800 at both the indoor and being delayed for a year. “I’m halted for the fi rst time in 125 Loyola. It was the fi rst time outdoor championships in honestly thinking an extra years. But she’s grateful the the two sisters had ever faced 2019. No one in Penn women’s year may help me more than women’s track team nabbed each other—and the last game track history has ever been an it will hurt me,” says Akins, its fi rst-ever Championship of either would play this year. NCAA champion—something who had hoped to dip below America title at last year’s “It was a really special day,” Akins was poised to change the 2-minute mark in the 800 Penn Relays with a dramatic says Rosenzweig, who now after running the second-best during the outdoor season win in the distance medley spends most of her time do- indoor 800 in collegiate his- (which is what the Olympic relay, and that the program ing puzzles or family work- tory (2:00.71—the fastest time qualifying standard will be). has also become a force in the outs with Livy in social isola- in the country this year by “It’s just delayed,” she adds of Ivy League with several over- tion in their home in Somers, more than two seconds) at a her running goals. “It’s not all team wins at the Heptago- New York. mid-February meet. entirely gone.” nal Championships. “I feel even more blessed Yet even though she had to (For anyone looking to ex- “Looking back, I’m even now knowing the season fl y back from New Mexico tend their collegiate career, more thankful for those ended the way it did.” —DZ

May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 27 Inequality

Tax the rich! And the poor. But not the way we do it now, nor necessarily for the usual reasons. As an economist pushing his fi eld to grapple with inequality, Wharton’s Benjamin Lockwood may change the way you think about the government’s broadest power.

By Trey Popp

ow do you ultimately tax the rich?” 150 million—who, according to econo- Benjamin Lockwood sits in his mists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zuc- “H offi ce in Wharton’s Vance Hall, man, actually pay slightly higher total mulling the question of the season. It’s eff ective tax rates than those 400. (As September 2019. The US economy has does every other group, from the 10th just posted its 123rd consecutive month percentile to the 99th.) Later in the of growth, extending the longest expan- month, the US Census Bureau will an- sion in the country’s history. The annual nounce that wealth inequality has federal budget defi cit also just crossed reached its highest level since the Bureau

Economics the $1 trillion mark—nearly doubling began tracking it more than 50 years ago. from its 2016 level. Never before has red Lockwood, a 35-year-old assistant pro- ink grown so sharply during good eco- fessor of business economics and public nomic times. Meanwhile, Democratic policy, is in some ways an outlier at presidential candidates tramp through Wharton. Of the school’s roughly 240 Iowa and New Hampshire, decrying the professors, each of whom can specify state of a union in which the 400 richest multiple research interests on his or her Americans own more than the bottom standardized faculty webpage, he is one

28 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS GASH May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 29 of just two who lists inequality. He also maximizing response to a certain mar- through any fundamental change they has a penchant for attacking economic ginal tax rate, shouldn’t an economist in bring about in the value of the assets questions from unconventional angles. a democratic republic take that into they buy and sell. “It’s extremely impor- Which is what he’s doing now. account? Lockwood thought so. So he tant to have well-functioning fi nancial How do you tax the income of top and two colleagues—Charles Nathanson markets,” Lockwood is quick to empha- earners? When economists face that of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of size, but past a certain point, each ad- question, Lockwood explains, they typi- Management and E. Glen Weyl of Micro- ditional investment banker is economi- cally focus on a concept familiar to any- soft Research—tried to bring some “eco- cally redundant. If 1,000 bond traders one who took Econ 101: the elasticity of nomic formalism” to the debate. are enough to provide suffi cient liquid- the labor supply. Someone who faces a They started out with the common- ity in a market, society gains little if an- marginal tax rate of 35 percent might be sense proposition—supported by eco- other 1,000 join their ranks. willing to work 60 hours a week; but nomic research—that people in some Indeed society may end up the poorer raise the rate to 45 percent and she professions are paid less than their ac- for it—especially if those superfl uous might decide it’s only worth working 55 tual value to society. “For example,” bond traders had otherwise gone into hours instead. The higher levy might Lockwood says, “there’s some nice evi- something like teaching or medical sci- bring in more revenue—but fi ve hours dence that if you replace a bad teacher ence. Which turns out not to be an idle of work have disappeared. Though that with an average one—not necessarily a worry. Take the career choices of contem- might be a boon for the worker’s spouse, terrifi c one, but just one in the middle porary Penn graduates. According to to the economy it’s lost productivity. Put of the pack—that raises the future sala- Penn Career Services data reported a three economists in a room and you ries of the classroom of kids that they’re couple years ago in the Daily Pennsyl- might get three opinions on how elastic teaching by about $250,000 a year” vanian, of the students entering full- the supply of labor truly is, but they’ll across all of those pupils. “Well, that sug- time jobs after graduation in recent probably agree that lost productivity is gests that teachers are probably adding years, nearly half have gone into fi nance really the thing you want to minimize. far more value to the economic pie than or consulting. As Lockwood and his col- “But when you look at the debates in they receive in compensation.” Basic leagues noted, there’s little mystery why. society about how heavily the rich medical research, he adds, creates even Among US multimillionaires, 18 percent should be taxed,” Lockwood remarks, larger spillover benefi ts that enrich so- work in fi nance while only 1 percent are “that sort of effi ciency cost doesn’t seem ciety as a whole. professors or scientists. to be the thing that people are often ar- Meanwhile, other folks make great But it wasn’t always this way. “Career guing about. Instead, they’re arguing gobs of money to perform work of neg- choices are highly sensitive to changes about what the rich are actually doing ligible or questionable social value. in compensation,” the economists wrote with their time, for society.” “Think about two big fi rms that are in the Harvard Business Review in 2017, Reduced to their opposite poles, the fi ghting over a fi xed resource—an oil and “as salaries in fi nance professions views are familiar. “One is that the rich fi eld, say—each with its army of lawyers,” rose sharply from 1980 to 2005, the are these job creators—these engines of he says. “Well, that’s a lot of compensa- share of workers in investment banks, economic growth that create lots of ben- tion that’s being spent on a zero-sum hedge funds, and similar fi nancial estab- efi ts and employ people and are some- fi ght” that won’t change the value of the lishments more than doubled.” thing to be encouraged,” he says. “The underlying resource. That skew, they noted, could amount other is that there are these rent-seekers Which amounts to a diff erent sort of to a “severe misallocation” of what is who are exploiting the talents and labors waste—or lost opportunity, at any rate. arguably a nation’s most valuable asset: of people below them in the pecking or- Over the long haul, fi ve extra hours a its talent pool. Society’s brightest mem- der, and kind of absconding with the week at a lab bench might yield a novel bers, in other words, are not being put benefi ts—the benefi ts of society. treatment for Alzheimer’s—or, more to their best uses. (And this can be a sort “And that,” he adds, “sounds like a modestly, an incremental advance in of double loss, given that one of the most pretty different model for how you fuel-effi cient engines that lowers every- common regrets cited by white-collar would decide how much to tax the rich.” one’s cost of travel. But fi ve extra hours professionals is having opted for high- Political bickering dominates this dis- fi ghting over drilling rights doesn’t paying but ultimately dissatisfying jobs.) cussion in the US. But what if you took change the size of the contested oil de- Pay varies in any market economy. the underlying ideas seriously? After all, posit. The same goes for fi nancial trad- Schoolteachers aren’t going to outearn oil- if Jane Q. Citizen cares more about Rich- ers trying to beat the market; their prof- industry lawyers anytime soon. But coun- ie Rich’s social impact than his utility- its come at one another’s expense, not tries could use income taxes to put a fi nger

30 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 on the scale. Lockwood wondered what that might look like. What if you jettisoned the pretense that every kind of labor has equivalent social value, and instead de- signed a tax code with the single-minded goal of encouraging talented workers to pursue socially benefi cial careers? Going further, what if you didn’t even care about some of the classic rationales for taxation, like funding safety-net programs or redis- tributing money from the haves to the have-nots? How would you tax the rich (and everybody else) then? The most obvious answer would be to set diff erent rates for diff erent profes- sions—rock-bottom taxes for teachers, for instance, and punitive ones for hedge fund directors. But even if such blatant discrimination were legally tolerable, hedge funders would soon rebrand themselves as “fi nancial educators,” and so on, to escape the higher toll. So Lock- wood and his colleagues modeled a profession-agnostic tax structure. First they surveyed the research lit- erature to estimate the positive or nega- tive spillovers (externalities, in econom- ic jargon) for various classes of skilled labor. Engineering and scientifi c re- search, for instance, are widely thought What if you jettisoned the to have positive externalities. The glut of fi nancial workers, and to a lesser de- pretense that every kind gree legal professionals, appears to “ex- ceed the social optimum”—leading to of labor has equivalent negative externalities. And many fi elds— like sales, the arts, real estate, manage- social value? ment consulting, IT professionals—are judged to be a wash. (Which is to say, people in those fi elds tend to earn “ap- proximately their marginal product”— was intriguing—partly because it didn’t wood’s model prescribed dramatically i.e. neither more nor less than the value line up neatly with the reigning prescrip- lower rates. Income between $100,000 they generate, creating no net spillovers tions on either end of the current Amer- and $150,000 would be taxed at 16 per- in one direction or the other.) ican political spectrum. cent—and everything lower would face Armed with those estimates, along with For one thing, the rich wouldn’t pay negative rates, which is to say, tax cred- some informed (if also admittedly uncer- that much more than they’re used to its. The upshot was that a worker mak- tain) assumptions about the underlying paying. The marginal rate on income ing $138,000 per year would pay ex- distributions of skills and personal pref- over $1 million worked out to 37 per- actly as much as someone with no in- erences in the population, Lockwood’s cent. That’s within a few points of what come at all: zero. Everybody in between group used standard economic methods it’s been for the last 30 years. Similar would get a check from the IRS, for to calculate a marginal tax schedule that marginal rates held for income above something on the order of 3 to 8 percent would maximize social welfare. The result $150,000. But below that level, Lock- of earned income.

Illustration by Chris Gash May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 31 The authors then compared their mod- share of workers in negative-externality cally doing things to try to draw people el to two alternatives: a simplifi ed version professions like fi nance and law, expand into those professions specifi cally, given of the actual income tax structure that was the share in engineering and research, what we seem to know about them.” in place in 2005, and a laissez-faire simu- and probably drive many workers to- And with that, the unconventional lation featuring no income taxes at all. ward careers with limited or no impact economist pivots toward a topic that This result was mixed. Their hypothetical on economic social welfare at all. “How- interests him just as keenly: how, ulti- system increased per-capita utility by ever, none of these changes are very mately, do you tax the poor? $815—or 1.2 percent—relative to the lais- large,” they wrote, “and the broad alloca- sez-faire scenario, and $503—or 0.8 per- tion of talent stays the same.” enjamin Lockwood grew up in cent—compared to the actual status quo. What that suggests, they inferred, is northern Idaho in a timber-frame Which is better than no improvement at “that historical tax reductions are un- house his parents built the year he all, perhaps, but a far cry from the esti- likely to have played a large role in the B was born. They were “back-to-the- mated social returns of directly subsidiz- shifts in talent allocation.” To test that land hippies” who raised Benjamin and ing research. The authors concluded that conclusion, they compared the distribu- his sister, Julia, off the power grid, about if the government taxed researchers at tion of today’s skilled workforce to that 50 miles from the Canadian border, -392 percent (which is to say, quadrupled of 1980—i.e. the “pre-Reagan” era when among neighbors whose common bond their salaries, perhaps through the Na- the top marginal rate was 70 percent. was everyone’s distance from the Amer- tional Science Foundation), almost 10 They determined that although pre- ican mainstream. “The NRA folks and times as many workers would enter those Reagan tax rates depressed overall social the hippies did ice cream socials togeth- fi elds, creating positive spillovers that welfare compared to today’s status quo— er,” Lockwood recalls, musing on the would drive broad social gains of 35 per- indicating that very steep progressive ideological diversity that lurked beneath cent per capita. For an economy that tax schedules indeed have drawbacks— the racial homogeneity. hasn’t beaten a 3 percent annual growth the allocation of talent has been remark- His father was a building contractor; rate for the last 15 years, that’s real money. ably stable. So next time you hear a pun- his mother worked at a local hospital. “This was to some extent a negative dit claim that bumping the top margin- Neither went to college, but they fos- result,” Lockwood says, about the hypo- al rate up (or down) by 5 percent will tered an intellectual atmosphere that, thetical tax structure, “in the sense that trigger economy-threatening idleness in hindsight, might as well have been we could show that the benefi ts of just (or growth-juicing hustle) in the upper custom-designed to produce a public- explicitly targeting certain professions echelons of the labor force, take it with spirited economist with a penchant for would be way, way bigger.” a grain of salt. crunching giant data sets. The nearest Yet the “negative result” revealed some For a patently speculative theoretical grade school was a 40-minute drive, “but counterintuitive insights. For instance, exercise that generated a “negative re- my parents were very committed to the “even without any concerns about redis- sult,” the paper is notable for the clarity idea of public education,” so there was tribution,” Lockwood points out, “it and topicality of its take-home message. no home-schooling for the Lockwood turns out that you would still [want to] “This might be one reason to have the kids. In the off hours they had consider- have a moderately progressive tax.” An- income tax be a bit progressive,” Lock- able room to roam. Between 4-H, the other takeaway relates to a stubborn wood says, “even if you’re not trying to Boy Scouts, and the simple sprawling feature of much tax-related punditry: redistribute wealth.” In the real world, beauty of Northern Idaho, Benjamin the widespread insistence that modest he adds, most people do have some aver- spent plenty of time hiking, skiing, and changes in the top marginal income-tax sion to inequality, and support the use sailing. But his mother policed some rate can dramatically infl uence how of taxes to ameliorate it. Which would boundaries with “frustrating” vigor. skilled workers choose to spend their recommend a “hybrid model” featuring “She had a very statistically validated professional lives. “some earned-income-tax-credit kind of sense of what the risks to kids were, be- This insight stemmed from the au- support through the working class, then cause she saw people coming into the thors’ analysis of why, exactly, their hy- an increase in tax rates that are sort of emergency room,” Lockwood recalls. “So pothetical tax’s impact would be so progressive up toward the top of the in- one thing I could never do was run with a small. The likely reason, they concluded, come distribution.” Either way, their sucker in my mouth—because, like, that is was that it simply wouldn’t tilt potential fi ndings amount to a “huge argument the thing that actually brings kids into the after-tax earnings dramatically enough for doing things like increasing NIH and ER.” Adolescence brought other prohibi- to change that many people’s career NSF funding, and creating merit pay and tions, “like riding in cars while my friends choices. It would modestly reduce the boosting the salaries of teachers—basi- were driving them.” His view of such re-

32 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 strictions was precisely that of every teen- disease); and raise money to expand pre- ager who has walked the modern earth. kindergarten programs and improve city Of all the ways Now that he’s in the utility-maximization parks and recreation centers. business—and a parent in his own right— The issues it raised scratched Lock- to tax the poor, he calls it “a very reasonable Bayesian wood right where he itched. “I don’t policy for you to have for your kids if you’re draw a bright line between the tax code trying to keep them safe.” and other sorts of policy realms,” he says. soda taxes seem A similar sensibility animates Lock- “In most cases policies are designed with wood’s research into a topic that has one or two kinds of goals in mind. One quite attractive. growing relevance around the world, is to change people’s behavior for some and particularly in Philadelphia: sugar- reason, and the other is to provide some sweetened beverage taxes (SBT). In 2016, sort of a safety net, or redistribution [to] Philadelphia became the fi rst major US support people who are less fortunate.” In a series of papers in the Journal of city to enact one, imposing a 1.5-cent- SBTs had both elements, but—as the soft Economic Perspectives, the Quarterly per-ounce levy on sweetened beverages drink lobby has vociferously argued—the Journal of Economics, and Science, Lock- ranging from fountain soda to “sports tax fell heaviest on poor consumers. Not wood and several collaborators (Hunt drinks” to bottled sweet tea. It sought to only does any fl at-rate consumption tax Allcott, Dmitry Taubinsky, and Anna achieve two goals: discourage the over- hit thin wallets harder than thick ones, Grummon) presented the most complete consumption of beverages known to but in America poor people tend to drink analysis to date of the trade-off s in- harm health (mainly through weight more sugar-sweetened beverages than volved. The upshot is that SBTs are in- gain, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular wealthier ones. deed regressive. “They make soda, which

Photo by Tommy Leonardi C’89 May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 33 tially amplify the tax’s benefi ts. A nation- wide SBT, they estimated in Science, would cut obesity rates by over 2.5 mil- lion adults and reduce the number of new type 2 diabetes cases by 47,000 people per year. Accounting for health care system savings, consumer surplus losses, and tax revenues, they estimated that an optimal SBT would produce a net economic gain of about $1.8 billion per year. Lockwood acknowledges the philo- sophical objections to this kind of nanny state approach. “If you try to correct every mistake that people could possibly make,” he says, “that may give the government license to be overly intrusive … Multiple diff erent poli- cymakers will all have their own story for how they’re going to come along and be your savior” by taxing your guilty pleasure or trying to nudge you toward some salu- brious habit. People who contend that this is not a game the government should be playing have a valid concern. Lockwood sees his role as to try to answer it. “In my mind, that is more of a rationale for having good, clear, sound policy analysis that jus- tifi es these kinds of policies, with a lot of rigor and peer review.” “The economy behaves differently That gels with some of the more subtle policy recommendations in these pa- when there’s rising inequality pers. For instance, the authors urge policymakers not to focus single-mind- than when there isn’t.” edly on minimizing sugar consumption. “The way to maximize health is to ban any sugary or fatty food or drink, includ- ing sugary drinks, red meat, and des- sert,” they observe. “Such a ban would is consumed at higher rates among the than among richer households. And that preclude any enjoyment that people get poor, more expensive. And so in that is a sort of progressive benefi t.” from eating steak or dessert, and it’s not sense it takes money away from poor Of all the ways one might tax the poor, clear where to draw the line on what consumers,” he summarizes. But that’s in other words, soda taxes seem like a foods or drinks to ban.” not the whole story, because empirical pretty attractive one. The proper aim, they maintain, is less evidence indicates that those same con- Drilling down, Lockwood and his col- draconian: to focus instead on “counter- sumers respond to the tax most mark- leagues served up a series of recommen- acting externalities and internalities”— edly, and so would expect to reap dispro- dations for policy makers. They pegged that is, empirically striking an optimal portionate benefi ts. the “socially optimal” SBT at between 1 balance between health-related out- “By changing the profi le of soda con- and 2 cents per ounce—but recommend- comes; losses imposed on consumers, sumption,” Lockwood says, a well-de- ed that taxing actual grams of sugar, producers, and sellers via the distortion signed SBT “reduces diabetes and obe- rather than volume of liquid (as has of spending decisions; and government sity more among poorer households mostly been the case), would substan- revenue. “Unhealthy behaviors do not

34 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Illustration by Chris Gash necessarily merit policy intervention, as when you’re thinking about questions of it’s because economists have been miss- they could simply refl ect the fact that poverty or questions of inequality.” ing part of the picture. people enjoy eating steak and dessert,” Questions of inequality have elicited “The economy operates diff erently they write. “Sin taxes are justifi ed only something like an allergic reaction when there’s rising inequality than when to the extent that they off set” harms that among mainstream Anglo-American there isn’t,” he says. “That’s not some- are not otherwise accounted for in the economists. “Of the tendencies that are thing that a representative-agent model transaction price of the good in ques- harmful to sound economics, the most can pick up. But it is something that tion. (A 25-year-old who pays a dollar for seductive, and in my opinion the most policymakers feel in society, and that the a soda three times a day can be assumed poisonous, is to focus on questions of population feels.” In which case, it’s the to have priced in the value of his imme- distribution,” declared Robert Lucas Jr., economists who need to bring their mod- diate gratifi cation, but evidence from a 1995 Nobel laureate widely regarded els closer in line to the world as it is. behavioral economics suggests that he as the most infl uential macroeconomist As for his status as one of just two has not factored in more distant poten- of his generation. Wharton professors to list inequality as tial costs of that habit—like the possibil- But a new cohort of economists is be- a research interest, Lockwood cautions ity that he’ll have to spend 12 hours a ginning to challenge that stance. Thom- against reading too much into that. In- week in a dialysis clinic in his 50s.) as Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel equality is a salient fact of contemporary A corollary recommendation is to tar- Zucman are in the vanguard, along with life, but it is also just one word among get policies to reduce consumption Raj Chetty—who was one of Lockwood’s many. It’s safe to assume that faculty among people among whom the poten- doctoral thesis advisors at Harvard. who list political economy, development tial harms are greatest. So if the health “There’s been an evolution,” Lockwood economics, and other areas of interest toll of sugary beverages falls most heav- says, “toward doing a better job of em- share some of the same concerns. ily on children, for instance—“perhaps pirically analyzing the diff erences with- “My belief,” he says, “is that you don’t due to limited self-control, or because in the population, rather than just kind want to have a subclass of economists their consumption generates lifelong of representing the representative agent. who are the ones interested in inequality, habits—then very high taxes or bans on And incorporating that kind of hetero- because then that means that there’s the sugar-sweetened beverages in schools geneity can show up in all sorts of diff er- rest of economics where that’s not their may be justifi ed.” ent questions—whether you’re thinking job—that there’s some sort of partition In many ways that epitomizes the central about fi nance, or economic growth, or between the people focusing on that het- aspect of Lockwood’s approach to econom- tax policy, or anything else.” erogeneity and the people who aren’t.” ics: an appreciation for heterogeneity. Advances in computing power, as well as He hopes that inequality economics— the increasing availability of huge data sets, or the economics of heterogeneity, or classic economic approach have played a part in this development. whatever you want to call it—will mirror was to use a ‘representa- “But I think it would be entirely too arro- the trajectory of behavioral economics. tive agent model,’” Lock- gant to claim that the reason that these In the early days of that discipline, “The wood explains, where “you studies have evolved in that way is that we “there were behavioral economists who would have one representative US house- as economists have decided that that’s the focused on just demonstrating circum- hold that makes $60,000 a year or what- right way to go,” he says. “There’s probably stances where people’s behavior seemed ever, and has $60,000 or $70,000 worth a fl ow in the other direction, too: that in- to systematically diverge from the classic of wealth, and 30 percent of that is fi nan- equality has been growing and continues rational homo economicus agent,” he cial and the other 70 percent is their home to become a larger and larger force in our notes. But now those insights have per- equity. But of course that doesn’t represent policy questions and our political debates. meated through the entire fi eld, becom- any particular household, right? That just So some of this is probably a response on ing part of a toolbox wielded in areas comes out of the averages. the part of economists to that realization.” ranging from health economics to tax “That’s a useful way to think about He refl ects that he often fi nds his way policy to online commerce. some types of problems,” he continues, to research questions by noticing areas “I would love for it to be the case that 20 “in part because these kinds of models where public policies diverge from what years from now no economists at Wharton are relatively easier to solve than models canonical economic models would rec- list inequality as one of their specifi c in- where you have lots of diff erent little ommend. “Sometimes that divergence terests,” he says. “That it’s just something agents … But it’s not a useful way to is doubtless because policy is just that all economists are incorporating into think about lots of problems that are messed up or suboptimal, or there’s po- their analysis in a deep way.” really pressing from a policy perspective, litical capture.” But sometimes, he adds,

May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 35 The Edge Walking the perimeter of Philadelphia. Walking

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By JJ Tiziou

36 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 PHOTOGRAPHY BY JJ TIZIOU Point of departure: 61st Street and Baltimore Avenue, looking at the map.

May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 37 Crossing City Avenue on the way to the Schuylkill River.

I get ready to walk out of Phil- Ann de Forest, and Sam Wend. A year Day One begins in the woods, following adelphia International Airport, later, in the aftermath of my father’s a trail in Cobbs Creek Park where the I ask myself again why I’m death, I did it again on my own. The fol- western edge of the city is defi ned by the doing this. Leaving the airport lowing years, I completed some parts natural border of a stream. The fi rst of on foot, as a pedestrian, is a solo, some with a friend, and others with many astonishing contrasts comes when Asstrange enough thing to do. Yet here I a small group. It has become a personal we emerge suddenly onto the back end of am, accompanied by 16 companions ritual that has also captured the imagi- a golf course, abruptly encountering the who’ve elected to join me on the last leg nation of others. In 2020, I opened the sudden roar of cars on City Avenue. This of my fifth annual pilgrimage walk invitation a little bit more broadly, hence long stretch of strip mall is clearly a line around the perimeter of Philadelphia. that big group striding out of the airport. drawn by a cartographer—but then we The fi nal stretch involves making an Walking around Philadelphia takes me cross a bridge towards Manayunk and unconventional exit from the airport, fi ve and a half days, covering about 100 fi nd ourselves following another natural edging along highways before diving miles. Each year I’ve done it in mid- border: the Schuylkill River, which leads into the sanctuary of the Heinz Wildlife February, always starting at 61st Street us toward the city’s northwestern edge. Refuge. But much has been unconven- and Baltimore Avenue in Southwest The operating principles of this walk tional about this adventure. Philly, always going clockwise. Each time are straightforward. Start somewhere Walk Around Philadelphia emerged is diff erent, with new adventures, com- on the city’s edge. Stay as close to the from an artist residency collaboration panions, discoveries, challenges, and perimeter as safety permits. Don’t break with my fellow walkers Adrienne Mackey, ever-changing weather. in anywhere, or blatantly trespass, but

38 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Morning at Manatawna Farms, near the city’s northwestern edge.

explore with a spirit of adventure, open a rail track towards Fox Chase. But the As someone who’s been well estab- to paths that might not generally be fi rst part of our morning takes us up a lished in the city for more than half a taken. When obstacles arise—and they steep wooded hill behind the Schuylkill lifetime, I thought I “knew” Philly. But will—go around them. (We call this the Center for Environmental Education the walk provides a humbling perspec- “Roomba Rule,” bumping our way and Manatawna Farms. This is wild, tive on this vast and complex city. Now around obstacles like the little robotic unkempt space, mixed in with fi elds and that I’m intimately familiar with its edge, vacuum cleaner.) As dusk approaches, cows, yet somehow this too is Philadel- the whole of Philadelphia feels like so fi nd the nearest spot where you can take phia. Later in the day it’s a strip mall, much more of a mystery. public transit home. The next morning, and then a park. Also Philadelphia. The forecast for Day Three called for resume from where you left off . Repeat There’s something special about expe- cold and constant rain—the kind of pre- until you’ve come right back to the riencing the city by focusing on its outer diction that might inspire one to stay at beginning, changed by what you’ve expe- edges. One revelation of our fi rst year was home. But I knew from the fi rst year that rienced along the way. how center-centric our view of the city the walk truly bears out the proverb that Day Two is a zigzag of straight roads, had been. We’d catch a glimpse of the “there is no bad weather, only inappro- leading us northeast from the river skyline in the distance and say, “Look, priate clothing.” When you set out in the towards Chestnut Hill, then southeast there’s Philadelphia!” Then we’d have to spirit of pilgrimage, with a spirit of curi- along Cheltenham Avenue all the way to correct ourselves: “This, right here at our osity open to discovery, you can bring joy Tookany Creek Park. From there, the feet and to our right, is Philadelphia. And to most any challenge and fi nd beauty border runs northeast again, alongside everything to our left is Not-Philadelphia.” around every corner.

Photos by JJ Tiziou May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 39 40 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Mausoleum in Forest Hills Cemetery in northeast Philadelphia (facing page); Scrap metal processing plant near the Delaware River (below).

There’s a spiritual metaphor in this for half-overgrown by nature. We see both Delaware River Trail are a shipyard, a me. In these turbulent and challenging things along the walk: new things being chemical plant, abandoned boats, a times, we might wish that the world built up, and old things being reclaimed scrap metal recycling facility, and of were other than it is—but I fi nd it more by the earth. The afternoon drizzle course the prisons. helpful to focus on how we choose to intensifi es as we wind our way through Questions of privilege hit home for me respond to it. What values and virtues paths in the creek bed below the Phila- again here, as I know several people do we need to cultivate in order to best delphia Mills mall, and it is properly who’ve made the journey from South- participate in whatever the world will dark and rainy by the end of this leg, but west Philly to these carceral facilities by bring us next? we are all in great spirits. the more traditional route of the school- And so we persevere, with a bush- This sets us up for a spectacular early to-prison pipeline. And here I am having whacking adventure, as the northeast- morning start to Day Four, with the long accomplished this journey via the more ern border of the city traces the bramble- regional rail ride back to Torresdale roundabout and far more pleasant expe- choked banks of Poquessing Creek. But timed to catch sunrise at Glen Foerd, a rience of a grant-funded artist residency, to get there we fi rst follow roads, stum- strange palace of a property on the and then by annually continuing a thing ble into an adventurous detour through northeastern corner of the city where that can easily feel like a self-indulgent a new housing development, and into Poquessing Creek meets the Delaware vanity project. some vacant industrial lands. One of the River. This day is a straight shot down There’s an irony here. At its core, Walk great surprises of the day is a giant crypt the river’s edge, but not without its Around Philadelphia is about the most in a cemetery whose door swings open adventures. Interspersed between gor- basic human activity: walking in public to reveal a gorgeous crumbling wreck geous, newly expanded segments of the space. Circumnavigating the city should

Photos by JJ Tiziou May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 41 Graffiti Pier near the Delaware River (below). Mysterious old sidewalk in vacant land between a new housing development and an industrial zone in northeast Philadelphia (facing page). be accessible to most anyone physically capable of it—but actually doing it requires a signifi cant amount of privi- lege, and I wonder about how to make this experience one that more diverse participants can partake in. It’s a long trek down the Delaware, and by the time we reach Penn’s Landing, suddenly feeling so close to more famil- iar everyday territory, we’re exhausted and our feet hurt. Nevertheless, we push on all the way to Pier 68 by the shopping plaza in South Philly. Day Five starts off with another glori- ous sunrise over the Delaware, this time more frigid: It’s 16 degrees when we set out. Adrienne, one of my original com- panions, joins us (fellow perimeter- walker Ann has been along since Day One) and it’s a joyous reunion. It’s a gift to spend all day walking with friends old and new. Walks open up a special and unique space for conversation. It allows for a certain fl uidity, leaves room for fi re in a hidden spot by the river’s edge. As our group cheerfully makes it back silences that feel comfortable, creates After all that, it’s a wild contrast to end to Baltimore Avenue, I relish the ways in possibility for deeper connection. Ever our day at the airport’s international which this project creates new opportuni- since the fi rst walk, I’ve started shaping departures terminal. ties for rich connection between partici- more of my meetings and social activi- And once again I fi nd myself in the pants who spend all day walking, talking, ties around walking. home stretch, for what I call Day 5.5 navigating obstacles, and coming to new The next stretch is industrial, past because the last segment is shorter than understandings of the city together. shipyards and into the Navy Yard. A the others. Knowing that such a large What would it be like if we matched a highlight of this day is crossing the Platt group is joining for the last leg, I’m a little city councilperson, a citizen just return- Bridge. I’m used to driving over it when bit anxious: How will I keep them all safe, ing from incarceration, a historian, and going to the airport, but it’s surreal to and will the size of the group detract from a plumber and sent them off to explore cross it on foot. To either side lies a vast the experience? Part of me wants to be the city’s edge together? Could this expe- realm of oil refi nery infrastructure, and doing this walk alone as my personal pil- rience of discovery, and the conversation visible through the bridge’s open grating grimage, part of me loves sharing the and connections that come through it, is a steep drop to the Schuylkill River. experience with others and wants to be used as an experience for civic groups? We could call it quits at the airport, since facilitate small groups going out and I’m not sure where this project will go technically only a fraction of it lies with- doing it on their own, and part of me has next, but I do know that it will take me in the city, and we can’t quite follow the a great time leading this motley proces- around the city a few more times, God perimeter directly across the runways, sion on what might be the most uncon- willing. If you’d like to join me, save the but a spirit of completionism leads us to ventional tour of Philly ever given. And date for February 2021. go the long way around the airport, on it works out splendidly, with everyone what is called Hog Island. enjoying the experience as we navigate Jacques-Jean “JJ” Tiziou C’02 is a visual artist These long stretches can get monoto- the edge of a toxic Superfund site, dis- and community organizer. His 85,000-square- nous. This is where the feet really begin cover where all the old rusting dumpsters foot How Philly Moves mural at PHL Interna- to hurt. But there are still sensations to end up, wander beautiful creek beds, and tional Airport was recognized as one of the register and discoveries to be made: a have a joyous reunion with two more nation’s best public art projects by Americans jet landing just overhead, a deer carcass walkers who intercept us just ahead of for the Arts. You can fi nd more of his work at just underfoot, the remnants of a camp- Mt. Moriah Cemetery. www.jjtiziou.net.

42 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Photos by Liana Brent (above) and JJ Tiziou (facing page) May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 43 Paper Man

Eric Jacobs has been at the Daily Pennsylvanian since articles were written on typewriters and layout was done by (actual) cutting and pasting. The newspaper’s longtime general manager is also a shared connection among every DP alum of the last 40 years. But this summer, he plans to leave the only job he’s ever had. By Molly Petrilla

efore anything else, there was a short article, only six paragraphs long, published several pages deep in the Daily Pennsylvanian on October 8, 1976: “Area Schools Sponsor Conference For Handi- capped College Students,” read the headline, and just below it, a name: By ERIC JACOBS. BJacobs EE’80 was a freshman living in Hill House at the time, and though he’d been an editor for his middle and high school papers, this was his fi rst byline in Penn’s daily student newspaper.

44 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONBY TOMMY LEONARDI BY CHRIS C’89 GASH May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 45 The article was direct and factual, pre- “For several generations of DPers, Eric Jacobs is on the tall side with glasses and, viewing a three-day conference. Exactly Jacobs is near synonymous with the DP most often, a big grin lighting up his face. the sort of story that generations of DP and our unforgettable experiences there,” He laughs easily and has a light Philly ac- reporters have counted as their debut. “No notes Helen Gym C’93 GEd’96, a DP alum cent—the product of growing up in nearby one could have known where things were and community activist who now serves Havertown, Pennsylvania, and sticking going to lead,” Jacobs says now, laughing, on the Philadelphia City Council. within a 45-minute drive ever since. because almost 44 years later, he’s still “There’s no one person who has shaped “Everyone has their EJ impression,” working at the same campus newspaper. the Daily Pennsylvanian more than Eric Schorr says aff ectionately, which is ex- Morphing from devoted newbie re- Jacobs,” says Amy Gardner C’90, a political actly what cast members on Saturday porter to student managing editor to of- reporter at the Washington Post who re- Night Live always say about Lorne Mi- fi cial adult-on-staff and, at times, the DP’s cently became president of the Daily Penn- chaels. “That’s an apt comparison,” she only full-time professional employee, sylvanian Alumni Association (DPAA). notes. It even applies to Jacobs’s role as Jacobs has stuck by The Daily Pennsylva- But this summer, after seeing the pa- anchor to a revolving mix of increas- nian, Inc.—today no longer just a print per through a clean break from the Uni- ingly younger-than-him creatives. newspaper, but a $3 million student me- versity, forays with new technology, its Schorr has noticed that he always or- dia organization that’s fully independent fl ushest years ever, and now its post- ders the same salad with a large iced tea from the University. He works for the Facebook-era battles to stay relevant and from Panera Bread and breaks out his students, some of whom are technically attract revenue, Jacobs plans to retire sweater collection when chilly weather his bosses, but also for the students, so from the only job he’s ever had. hits. He’s been listening to Bruce Spring- that they can continue to have a thriving There are just a few more things he steen since 1976 and estimates that he’s and student-run enterprise, even at a wants to do fi rst. seen “The Boss” in concert well over 20 time when media companies are facing times now. And on weekday mornings for their greatest threats. here’s a new issue of the DP out today. over three decades, he’s driven 45 min- While his title of general manager has That’s a rarer statement than it utes—or much longer, depending how remained the same since 1981, Jacobs’s used to be. Three years ago, faced snarled I-95 is that day—from his home unoffi cial mantles stretch in all direc- T with plummeting ad sales and look- in Bucks County to the DP offi ce, where tions: tech whiz, bill payer, alumni liai- ing to beef up its digital off erings, the he stays until well past dinnertime. son, DP historian, tax fi ler, furniture fi xer, daily paper dropped down to two print His workday often continues even after printer contact, and—not least of all—guy issues per week. he gets back home, since the DP goes out who calms and advises panicked students But these days, the DP extends well to the printer in the darkest hours of the at all hours of the day and night. beyond a print product. In addition to morning, and since web stories are now “He wears a thousand caps, which is the Daily Pennsylvanian and 34th Street, published round-the-clock. why replacing him is probably going to it also produces three digital newslet- Schorr remembers a Sunday night last be one of the biggest challenges the DP ters, a humor blog, multiple podcasts, spring when the newspaper team was has,” says Julia Schorr C’20, a fi ne arts videos, web-only stories for thedp.com, cranking along on Monday’s print issue major who served as president of The and social media accounts that top out and suddenly the power shut off . “We Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. last year. “I at nearly 20,000 followers. Except for called him in a panic late at night,” she can’t imagine the DP without him.” the DP and Street, everything on that list says. Jacobs, calm as ever, called the elec- Whether they pursue careers in jour- emerged during Jacobs’s tenure. tric company to fi nd out what was hap- nalism or leave it behind at Penn, virtu- On this Monday morning in early Feb- pening. (Wrangling utility bills is on his ally every student or alum who’s been ruary, a stack of fresh newspapers sits long list of responsibilities.) Power even- connected to the DP over the last 40 outside the DP’s offi ce building at 4015 tually returned and the paper came out years has encountered Jacobs either Walnut Street—its home base since the next day—along with an article about face-to-face, by name and reputation, or 1975. Just inside, it smells like bread the local blackout. through one of the print letters and and coff ee thanks to the organization’s “Whenever we thought something was emails he blasts out—most likely, all of longtime downstairs neighbor, Metro- going horribly wrong and it was the end the above. Some alums like to joke that politan Bakery and Cafe. Head upstairs of the world, he always had a story that they majored in the DP at Penn. If that’s and through the DP’s door, then turn would trump it,” Schorr says. “It would the case, Jacobs was their TA, professor, left, and you’ll be looking straight into make us feel a bit better to know we dean, RA, alumni mentor, and academic Jacobs’s offi ce. It’s surprisingly tidy for weren’t ruining the DP—that we’re not advisor rolled into one. how long he’s been there. the fi rst ones to deal with these problems

46 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 “Only in more recent years do I sometimes go into the restroom, look in the mirror, and realize I do not look like everybody else I was just looking at in that room.”

of sales and marketing. “Yet he still needs to make sure that whatever they decide to do gets done. It takes a level of tact and fi nesse that, to me, he has seem- ingly always had.” “I’ve always felt like I was one of them— a collaborator with the students,” Jacobs explains. “Only in more recent years do I sometimes go into the restroom, look in the mirror, and realize I do not look like everybody else I was just looking at in that room.” But even as the years pro- ceed and his hair continues to gray, “I still feel like I’m one of the team.” For most students, especially those not on the DP’s editorial board, Jacobs’s day- and we probably won’t be the last. That had happened, and had an extra 6,000 to-day work is murky or even invisible. was really important to hear.” copies on campus by the early afternoon. Ross says that’s true for every member The brief blackout would only be a There have been reporting gaff es that of the organization’s professional staff , sidebar—if that—in the history of dra- drew national attention and student which currently includes her, Jacobs, an matic moments Jacobs has seen during editorial boards who just couldn’t seem offi ce manager, and a recently hired di- his tenure. To start, there was that time to get along. When we talk again in mid- rector of development to drive the orga- in 1981 when US Secret Service agents March, there is the novel coronavirus, nization’s expanded fundraising eff orts. showed up and locked themselves inside which ends up closing campus and sus- Jacobs pays the bills and makes sure a DP offi ce with a student columnist to pending the DP’s print editions for the the lights (and internet) stay on. He question him for having written, after fi rst time since World War II. places orders for new computers and John Hinckley Jr.’s assassination attempt But even in the most chaotic moments, printers. He sits in on meetings with the on President Reagan, “Too bad he missed. no one can remember a time that Jacobs DP’s board of directors, its all-student That’s the result of sending an amateur to lost his composure or tried to seize con- executive board, and the Daily Pennsyl- do a professional job.” trol of the DP from its student leaders. vanian Alumni Association. One mo- Then there was the morning in 1993 “He’s always really respected that, techni- ment he may be spackling a hole in the when almost 14,000 copies of the DP cally, the students are in charge,” says David wall, the next he’s sitting down for three went missing, stolen off the racks by Burrick C’06, who served as executive edi- hours with the DP’s podcast editor to Penn students who left signs announc- tor on the DP’s 120th board. talk about equipment needs. ing that they were protesting “the bla- “He has zero voting power on every “Then 20 minutes later, the sports tant and voluntary perpetuation of in- board—he cannot decide anything,” editors complain because the couch he stitutional racism against the Black notes Katherine Ross, who has worked just fi xed broke again, and now we have Community by the DP” and Penn. Jacobs with Jacobs on the DP’s professional to lug it down to the dumpster and buy contacted the printer, explained what staff since 1995 and is now its director a new one,” Ross says. “Twenty minutes

May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 47 after that, he’s on the phone with the dent business manager, off ering to see By the mid-1990s, the DP had a web- printer because the color’s been off for the project through the summer of 1980 site, was pumping out full-color issues, the past two weeks.” and into the fall. and had acquired a small fl eet of Mac And on and on it goes. “It was going to be a four-to-six-month desktop computers and advanced laser “It’s a very weird situation,” says Bur- job,” Jacobs remembers, but then he kept printers. The professional staff bal- rick, “because you’re technically in thinking up more missions for himself looned to fi ve full-time employees. In charge, but you’re also a 20-year-old who to tackle. He suggested that the DP hire 2000, the annual operating budget hit has never run a multimillion-dollar busi- him as its fi rst full-time, year-round of- an all-time high of $1.5 million. “The ads ness before. Having Eric around was fi ce manager. They did, and by the sum- were raining down,” Jacobs remembers. essential. I’m sure there were ten thou- mer of 1981, he was bumped up to gen- But even in those fl ushest years, he sand things that went on at the Daily eral manager, which he’s been ever since. championed prudence. “We didn’t go out Pennsylvanian that I was technically in “Had anyone suggested back when I fi rst and buy a car, a helicopter, whatever,” he charge of and didn’t even know about, started here that I would be here 40 years says. “We put the money aside.” That’s how because Eric was doing those things.” later, I would have laughed,” he says. In his the DP has managed to weather the life- early days on staff , he often thought of his threatening storm no one saw coming. here’s a video Jacobs made in 2011 and roommates—one heading to med school, has continued to update since. It another to grad school in engineering, hen the country crashed into a re- sweeps through the history of the DP, “and I’m still hanging out at the college cession in 2008, Jacobs knew it T beginning with the newspaper’s launch newspaper,” he says. “It didn’t feel like it would eventually hit student as the Pennsylvanian in 1885 and conclud- was really quite grown up. But the fact W newspapers like the DP. And sure ing with a spool of sentimental quotes from was, there were all these things to do, and enough, ad sales soon began to sink. He alumni whose lives were aff ected by their I got to dabble in all these diff erent fi elds.” wasn’t especially worried, though. Ja- time there. The whole thing is set to epic With the new computers in place, Ja- cobs fi gured the DP could wait out the movie soundtrack music—John Williams- cobs began developing systems to pro- lean times, just as it had in the past. type stuff —which Jacobs happened to have fessionalize the paper’s advertising sales, But then people started reading the handy already because he’s a fan. from designing new rate cards to imple- news online and on their brand-new “People always cry after watching it,” menting sales staff trainings. smartphones. The one-two punch of the Schorr says, “because you see how much His next major project came when the recession and the rise of online media the DP has grown and changed over the DP decided to fully separate itself from was devastating for all newspapers, the years, but how the core mission has the University. He helped navigate the DP included. Suddenly everything that stayed the same.” yearlong process of offi cially turning the had helped to make the DP a high-earn- The Jacobs Years start just about half- student newspaper into a not-for-profi t ing enterprise in the 2000s wasn’t work- way through, with a photo of fi ve guys corporation, The Daily Pennsylvanian, ing anymore. “I didn’t initially under- in suits and ties. Jacobs is on the far Inc., in 1984. Along with the student stand that the world was turned upside right in big glasses and even bigger curly editorial board, Jacobs fi gured out ev- down and the way people interact with hair. It was 1979, and DP leaders had just erything from running a payroll, to fi nd- media was completely changing in a signed a $130,000 contract to install the ing a lawyer, to striking a deal on rent very short period of time,” Jacobs says. newspaper’s fi rst computer system. with the University. He notes that for the last 10 years, That contract is what kept Jacobs at the As the 1980s progressed, the DP intro- from an operations standpoint, the DP DP, at least in the beginning. As a com- duced a summer edition, The Summer has been running at a defi cit, living off puter science major and the paper’s man- Pennsylvanian, and in 1986, Jacobs helped of the fi nancial cushion he helped stu- aging editor, he led the charge to bring form the DP Alumni Association, which he’s dent boards sock into investments dur- computers into the newsroom. (Up until been actively managing ever since. ing the ad-rich years. then, students were still using Smith Co- In 1987, much of the legwork and proj- Today most of the DP’s revenue still rona typewriters and editing articles ect management fell to Jacobs when the comes from advertising, but that ad rev- through a manual cut-and-paste process.) DP spent $100,000 to gut its offi ce on enue has been chopped nearly in half. When his graduation date neared, Walnut Street, transforming it into the And so, like every other media company, there were still “a lot of loose ends that Pink Palace that it remains today. (The the DP has had to get creative about I thought could fall apart” on his beloved nickname comes from the sheer amount earning money. From that has sprung computer initiative, Jacobs says. So he of a certain color on the walls, carpet, the newsletter aimed at Penn parents handwrote a proposal to the DP’s stu- tile, and even desk chairs.) and alumni, which requires a paid sub-

48 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 scription; the student-led Product Lab tecting the organization for generations fandom was on full display at the team, tasked with developing innovative of students to come. “But I don’t say that DP’s 135th anniversary reunion, moneymakers; and the Summer at Penn with gloom and doom,” she adds. “I say held at Houston Hall this past magazine and upcoming year-round that as an opportunity. I really, truly be- EJ fall. In addition to his role in visitors’ guide to University City, both lieve that it’s doable and we’re putting the helping organize the whole weekend, produced by the DP and fi lled with ad- pieces in place to do it.” Jacobs was among the fi rst batch of DP vertisements. Also: the organization’s Jacobs admits that it’s still a little alumni inducted into its new hall of fi rst-ever director of development. strange to see students roaming campus fame. The standing ovations were plen- “It could be that fundraising support without copies of the DP tucked under tiful, including when he gave a speech is the model—from DP alumni, and even their arms. But he gets it. He reads a lot and Helen Gym, the Philly council mem- from a broader base of Penn alumni who of his news on screens now, too. ber, read an offi cial city resolution hon- see the importance of having an inde- “The reason I’m not in a state of de- oring his work at the DP. pendent student newspaper reporting spair,” he says, “is that there’s still a lot “One of the things that really jumped on what’s going on at Penn,” Jacobs says. of content we’re publishing, just in dif- out at me was just how many generations In spite of some modest successes and ferent media. That’s not necessarily a of DP people felt like they owed Eric the countless hours Jacobs has spent bad thing, as long as we’re publishing something—that he contributed to their brainstorming with the student and things that people want and that they education and life experiences in a mean- alumni boards, “so far, we have not de- engage with. That’s really the challenge.” ingful way,” his friend Rich Gordon C’80 veloped anything that has really blos- He’s further heartened that right now, says. “The number of people whose lives somed into a major source of revenue,” the DP’s staff is the biggest it’s ever been: he’s touched is just remarkable.” he notes. “We just haven’t fi gured it out, nearly 400 students. “If students were For some students, Jacobs is the fi rst per- and it will probably take some time to looking and saying, ‘The DP. Newspaper. son they’ve ever turned to for advice on fi gure out.” Ew. That’s old, why would I do that?’ that managing their peers or negotiating dis- That’s where he thinks some new would be troubling,” he says. “Instead, agreements with coworkers. For top-of-the- blood managing the DP could be a good what we’ve seen over the last decade is masthead editors like Burrick, he was also thing, although it’s not the reason he’s an increase. Part of that is because we’re a fi rst employee. “The fi rst time I had to leaving. He also doesn’t feel burnt out, doing cool things—podcasts, analytics, have a discussion around someone’s raise or short of projects to tackle. But he al- coding—that we didn’t do fi ve or 10 or and bonus was Eric Jacobs,” he says. ways imagined retiring early if he 15 years ago.” But here’s what Gardner wants you to could—visiting his nonagenarian par- Few can picture Jacobs completely know: Even after 40 years there, with ents more and traveling the world with detaching from the DP when he retires the number of decades between himself his wife—and this summer he’ll turn 62. this summer—and that’s not his immedi- and current students continuing to grow, Jacobs recognizes that “for me and for ate plan, either. Once a replacement is Jacobs doesn’t see himself as above any the organization, there comes a time chosen, he’ll continue working full-time task—and continues to put the DP fi rst. where new ideas, new insights, new ap- during the new general manager’s early She recalls leaving a recent DPAA proaches can be good.” months on the job, then stay on part- board meeting and seeing Jacobs, Ross, Gardner, the DPAA president, sees it time for a little longer after that. and another DP staff er hand-folding and too. Acknowledging that it’s diffi cult to “I don’t want us to fumble a lot of stuffi ng the latest alumni newsletter into say goodbye to a beloved fi xture who’s things I’ve helped build just because no envelopes. There were stacks of hun- done so much for the DP, she says Ja- one knew that Eric used to do this, so it dreds to tackle. Fold, stuff . Fold, stuff . cobs’s retirement also presents an op- didn’t get done,” he says. So much of his “As I walked by, he said, ‘Oh! Hey! Save portunity “to hear from a new perspec- work has boiled down to providing the DP a stamp. Take yours,’ and he tive about new directions that the insti- structure and consistency in a place found the one with my address on it and tution should go in to preserve its fi nan- where everything (and everyone) else is gave it to me as I walked out,” Gardner cial autonomy, grow its audience, [and] constantly changing. Anchoring his own remembers. “That’s Eric: in the trenches, grow its revenue.” transition will be no diff erent. incredibly organized, thinking quickly, People from across the industry have After that change-of-hands period, “I’m smile on his face.” been applying to fi ll his post—editors, sure I’ll stay connected in some way,” he reporters, business managers, publishers. adds. “But I don’t want it to be like, the Molly Petrilla C’06 is a frequent contributor to Gardner says the next general manager old guy’s hanging around and still talking the Gazette, and a DP alum who served as will be tasked with stabilizing and pro- about the way we used to do things.” editor of the Summer Pennsylvanian.

May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 49 Dot dashRising Aft er putting the familiar but failing website About.com out of its misery, Dotdash CEO Neil Vogel has managed to craft a thriving group of websites from the company’s wreckage.

By Alyson Krueger

ne day in 2016 Neil Vogel W’92 “It was this weird, broken, ad-support- a veteran of multiple start-ups who teach- marched into the executive of- ed thing that was just on the internet,” es courses on digital media at New York fi ces of media company IAC remembers Vogel. “I had a friend who University. “Yahoo is a good example. So and announced, “I want to called it ‘the back button’ because it was is Myspace and Friendster. Companies blow the whole thing up.” so outdated.” have their moment, and then they fade.” For three years, Vogel had By 2016, Vogel had already tried pretty Still wanting to try to beat those odds, been at the helm of the website much everything he could to restore About. however, Vogel came up with a fi nal plan— About.com, which IAC—whose com to relevance. He made it prettier, that is, blowing the whole thing up. “family” of 150-plus brands quicker, more user-friendly. He tried pub- He would stop trying to resuscitate and products also includes digital plat- lishing more content with the potential to About.com. People didn’t want large, Oforms like Vimeo, Tinder, and Angie’s go viral. But the audience kept declining. catchall sites anymore. Rather, he would List—had bought from the New York He missed his target numbers for nine save the strong content and divide it into Times in 2012. Behind its red circle logo, straight quarters. Every time, he would ap- websites that focused on one topic like About.com published a bewildering va- proach the head honchos at IAC, “and ex- health or tech. Each website would have riety of “need-to-know” content. Readers plain in great detail why our great ideas a brand that he would develop from went there to learn about everything weren’t working,” he says. “The fact that we scratch. The name About.com would get from the symptoms of diabetes to how were still employed was unbelievable.” thrown away. “The fact that he was will- to perfectly barbecue chicken. While People who work in digital media know ing to creatively destruct About.com, some of the information was undoubt- the industry has few second acts. “Inter- that was really unusual,” says Cohen. edly valuable, the website itself was ar- net media companies rise and fall, and “The best asset About.com had was its chaic, slow, and hampered with ads. they don’t come back,” says Aaron Cohen, name. It was a signature internet brand.”

50 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN BARTLETT MayMar| JunApr 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 51 While most digital media companies at 2020, bringing their total number of em- Of course, this kind of imitation also the time were focusing on producing fun, ployees to around 1,950. means Dotdash will have to try even newsy content to attract readers, Vogel Most telling, says Max Willens, a se- harder to stay ahead of its competitors. decided his sites would focus on straight- nior reporter at the online-media trade “Netfl ix may be a good company, but forward, service-oriented articles written publication Digiday, is that other brands now they have HBO Now, Disney+, Ap- by experts that readers would fi nd helpful are starting to mimic Dotdash’s strate- ple TV,” says Cohen, drawing an analogy today or in 10 years. The websites would gies. “Folks in the media have noticed to the streaming wars now heating up. also load at “lightning speed” and have how much success Neil has had,” he says. “Their competitive landscape is chang- two-thirds fewer ads than competitors to “SEO and search strategy, what Dotdash ing even though they’ve arrived.” improve user experience, thereby increas- focuses on, is the new hot thing again.” ing the engagement and size of the audi- As Willens puts it, 20 years ago search here is a real Philadelphia-ness to ence—making it that much more attrac- was the dominant audience acquisition him,” says Cohen, describing Vo- tive and valuable to advertisers. strategy. That meant media companies gel’s personality. (The two crossed “We are going to reinvent publishing got their audiences by showing up in “T paths in the 1990s in digital me- on the internet,” he says, recalling his search engines such as Yahoo and Google. dia’s early days, and more recently Vogel pitch to his bosses. “Oh, and by the way, To do that they had to not only write con- spoke to Cohen’s class at NYU.) I know I just missed numbers for nine tent that answered the questions people In April Vogel joined the 10-member straight quarters, but I need 30 million were asking; they also had to have the board of the Philadelphia Inquirer and bucks to do it.” correct headlines, photos, and blurbs that was quoted as saying that he “essentially “I don’t know if terrifying is the right people wanted to see. That’s how SEO, or learned to read” from the paper’s sports word for that meeting,” says Mark Stein search optimization strategy, was devel- section and remains a subscriber. He holds C’90 W’90, IAC’s executive vice president oped. SEO is the process of increasing meetings in a conference room decorated and chief strategy offi cer. “But we had to traffi c to a site by becoming more attrac- with Eagles banners and pillows. After have confi dence in him, that’s for sure.” tive to a search engine. the Eagles’ 2018 Super Bowl victory over About.com was renamed Dotdash (the Around 10 years ago, however, there the New England Patriots, Philly-style dot was taken from aboutdotcom, and the was a shift. As millions of people fl ocked cheesesteaks were delivered to Dotdash’s dash in Morse code is the letter A). Diff er- to social media sites like Facebook, Twit- midtown Manhattan offi ce for the entire ent brands such as The Spruce (home), ter, and then Instagram, media compa- staff —paid for by Tim Quinn, Dotdash’s Verywell (health), TripSavvy (travel), In- nies thought that they could attract an CFO and a Pats fan, as part of a bet. vestopedia (fi nancial management), and audience by having ordinary people Vogel loved his city, but he felt stifl ed more were launched under that umbrella share their content among their net- by the suburban public school he at- name. The transition was rough—the com- works. The idea behind this social strat- tended. “It wasn’t far off from The Break- pany lost $20 million in 2016—but by 2019 egy was that, if content was so attractive fast Club,” he says. “If you were smart, it was making $40 million and getting to people that they all shared it, it would you were one thing. If you liked sports, hundreds of millions of readers a month. go viral and generate more traffi c. it was another. If you partied, it was that. While other digital media companies Now, however, companies are realizing It wasn’t all that appealing to me be- are getting smaller, Dotdash is expand- that a social strategy is fraught with cause I liked sports, but I also liked get- ing. In May 2019 it purchased Brides from challenges, Willens says. “On Facebook ting good grades.” Conde Nast, ending the magazine’s print it can be diffi cult to tell what people will He applied Early Decision to Penn be- edition, which had been losing readers respond to, like what will go viral,” while cause one of his friends’ older brothers had steadily, and shifting to digital-only pub- analyzing search was more straightfor- gone there and wasn’t defi ned by a cate- lication. “Those about to walk down the ward. “You can tell what kind of demand gory. “I learned from him that you could aisle these days are more likely to browse there is. You can just look at Google like school and politics and drinking beer wedding sites or scroll through Insta- search trends, and you can tell the price and sports and doing dumb things,” Vogel gram than run to a newsstand,” wrote the for certain keywords if you are trying to says. “I was like, ‘These are my people. I New York Times in an article about the buy an audience. You can tell how much can be a whole person around them.’” acquisition. And while companies such interest there is around this stuff.” Vogel adjusted to Penn life quickly. He as BuzzFeed and Vox Media went through Which is why more companies, even joined the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, massive layoff s last year, Dotdash has ones that have traditionally relied on where he thrived as social chair. Accord- been ramping up hiring, with plans as of social, are turning to a search strategy, ing to Andy Snyder W’92, a former room- early in the year to add 1,500 people in and the reason Vogel never left. mate of Vogel’s who is now CEO of the

52 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 investment management fi rm Cambridge purchase was the Telly Awards, a Ken- Information Group, everyone wanted to tucky-based awards program for local “The site was so be his friend. “He was somebody people television shows and commercials. The wanted to be around, a fun guy,” he says. program had a large network of nomi- bad, I was like, He also off ers a (possibly facetious) the- nees but had failed to stay relevant in ory about Vogel’s chosen career path. “He the digital age. At the time, applications ‘OK, I’m not going was always about 10 years behind us in were all by mail-in ballot, and there were maturity, which is probably why he was no online announcements of winners or to be the guy who in touch with the wave of the internet online advertising associated with the sooner than us.” awards. Vogel took it online, refreshed the branding, and increased the number messes it up.’” he internet is still new enough that of participants paying to enter. Soon his there are those like Vogel who have company, Recognition Media, owned been around it since the beginning. eight diff erent awards shows including T In the mid 1990s, after working Internet Week in London and New York. 80-hour weeks for an investment bank, “What we learned, the hook of the means no one at Dotdash can receive a he joined Alloy, a company that was mar- business, is that everyone needs mea- Webby. “It’s killing me,” he says.) keting apparel and accessories to teenag- surement in their work product,” Vogel When Joey Levin EAS’01 W’01, who is ers through catalogs—and wanted to says. “If you are a real estate broker, you now the CEO of IAC and also knew Vogel start using the internet. (It’s hard to either sell houses or you don’t. But if you from Penn, called to ask his thoughts on imagine now, but that idea received make television commercials or web- About.com shortly after IAC acquired the pushback, says Vogel. “People were like, sites, you need third-party validation for company, Vogel responded snarkily: “I don’t ‘No kid would buy anything online, be- your subjective work. To get this, people think about About.com.” Still, he promised cause they don’t have credit cards.’”) are able to spend their company’s mon- Levin he would look into the brand. Vogel was in charge of business devel- ey for tremendous personal gain.” Slowly Vogel started to see potential. opment. In the dot-com bubble, the com- One of Vogel’s signature acquisitions Some 40 million people a month were pany soared. “The world was going in- was the Webby Awards, essentially the still using the site. It published two mil- sane, and we went public in 1999,” he Oscars for the internet. In 2005, the fi rst lion pieces of content, some of which was says. “We must have had less than 30 year Vogel ran it, Al Gore won the life- compelling. “I liked that the content employees and were losing money and time achievement award. Per award helped people,” he says. “It wasn’t like, all of a sudden we had all this capital.” rules, the former vice president and ‘Here are 10 ways you know you live in (Fortunately, Alloy executives invested 2000 Democratic presidential candidate Chicago.’ It was useful stuff .” that money in cash-fl owing businesses, had to give a five-word acceptance He also realized the possibilities for so they didn’t go bust like many others speech. His message, “Please Don’t Re- advertising. “You knew someone was when the bubble burst in 2001.) count This Vote,” went viral “before any- into barbecuing because they were read- In 2003, Vogel took a spring and sum- thing went viral,” says Vogel. “A friend ing about how to do it,” he says. This fact mer off . “I was cooked. I needed a break,” saw it on CNN in the airport in Israel. stood in contrast to other sites where, he says. “There were a lot of hours in That really helped us, and the business for example, you had to guess that some- banking, and a lot of hours at Alloy, and went nuts.” one might be looking for new makeup they all stacked up together.” He bought The following year, Prince won the because they were reading about the an old Ford Bronco and did everything same award and provided another viral best dressed celebrities at the Met Gala. and anything that sounded fun. “I lived moment. He showed up at the last min- After multiple rounds of interviews—“I at the beach for a couple of months,” he ute, sang a song he made up, smashed a wouldn’t say it was easy to recruit him; recalls. “I went mountain biking. I went $15,000 guitar on stage, and then left. he’s too smart of a person to make it to Europe. I was a photographer’s assis- Vogel still cracks up as he remembers completely easy,” Stein says—Vogel tant for a month. I was open for any idea.” the late musician’s bodyguards trying to agreed to run About.com, fi guring he At the end of the summer, he “got ensure the episode wouldn’t show up couldn’t make it any worse. “The site was properly bored, which was the goal,” he online: “We were like, ‘Yeah, OK, guys.’” so bad, I was like, ‘OK, I’m not going to adds. So when an old boss suggested, as (While Vogel stepped down from his be the guy who messes it up,’” he says. his next media venture, to manage vari- role as founder and CEO in 2013, he is Digiday’s Willens says that one of the ous awards shows, he said yes. His fi rst still on the company’s board. That most challenging parts of Vogel’s even-

May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 53 tual decision to abandon the About.com celebrity gossip, news. The third catego- taxes, and accounting,” he says. “Dot- name is that it is very diffi cult to build ry, in which Dotdash plays, is to secure dash has fi gured out a way to do it, but new brands on the internet and get need-to-know information. My iPhone as they grow it’s going to be hard.” people to care about them. “It’s not screen cracked, what do I do? What do I “If the government puts out a new nu- something you can do overnight,” he wear to a funeral? trition warning about jelly beans tomor- says. But now, four years later, there are The company relies on Google and row, we have to fi nd all of our jelly bean signs that Dotdash’s sites are thriving. other search engines to lead people to content across all of our verticals and Verywell Health, a website that pro- its sites after they type a question. “They update it right away,” says Vogel. But that vides wellness information written by take great care to ensure their pages are is an age-old journalism problem, he health professionals, was one of the fi rst built in a way that Google’s search algo- adds. “If a political story breaks on brands Dotdash launched out of the rithm likes,” says Willens. “Dotdash has Christmas Eve, the Washington Post has ashes of About.com in April 2016. In Feb- an entire team to decide the best titles, to deal with that also.” ruary the website launched its fi rst how many images should be on a post, “Champions of Wellness Awards” ac- what advertisements should appear on he clearest indicator of Vogel’s suc- knowledging health professionals in 100 the site and how they load.” cess is that advertisers seem to ap- diff erent categories. “This is proof that In some ways it’s an easier strategy prove. For eight straight quarters, 18 the brand is working,” says Willens. “If than social, where companies lean on T of the company’s top 20 advertisers no one knew what Verywell was, no one readers to share content. But there is have returned. would care that they got an award or also a downside, says Willens. “You are Vogel says that is because the company enter the nomination process.” High pinning your fortunes around the whim knows exactly what people are reading, profi le winners include actress Jameela of one company, Google.” As the biggest so he can target ads to them. “If you are Jamil for her work on “body positivity” name in search, Google can send com- a gluten-free food company, and you and neurosurgeon and CNN chief med- panies scrambling to respond to peri- want to advertise your new pasta, we can ical correspondent Sanjay Gupta. odic updates of the search algorithms put it on all of our recipes for pasta and One of Dotdash’s largest brands is its that govern results—to avoid getting all our posts about celiac disease and all home site, The Spruce. It attracts 30 pushed down below the front page. of our articles about health trends,” he million users each month and has says. “That is way better than putting it 14,000 pieces of content, such as “The ogel believes as long as his articles on a random website.” Surprising Places You’re Forgetting to are clean, written by experts, and Dotdash is currently on a buying spree, Clean” and “Cheery Yellow Paint Colors provide the information people so it can off er more verticals for adver- for Any Room in Your Home.” A sign V want, there is no reason Google tisements. In the past two years the com- their brand is working, says Willens, is wouldn’t highlight them. It’s also telling pany has scooped up Byrdie (beauty), that they have started doing product that companies like BuzzFeed are start- Brides (weddings), Liquor.com (alcohol), licensing. Specifi cally, they launched 32 ing to focus on search as well, says Wil- Mydomain (lifestyle), Investopedia (fi - interior paints, made by KILZ, that lens. Business Insider, for example, has nance), and TreeHugger (green living), were designed by The Spruce editors. started writing how-to articles like how among other brands. “They had to off er demonstrable proof to set up a Roku player. Vogel’s plan is simple. Create more ev- to a company like KILZ that people Cohen worries the company is missing ergreen, need-to-know content in the know what The Spruce is and that they an opportunity to grow by shying away categories Dotdash already has, as well trust it,” he says. “Would you buy some- from social strategies. “Dotdash wants as in new categories where Dotdash thing based on the recommendations to get its content in front of as many of hasn’t yet ventured. from any random website?” the right people as it can,” he says. “And “Verywell is still 25 percent of the size of Of course, for these brands to succeed, Instagram is an important source of dis- WebMD. The Spruce is one-fi fth of the size the company has to drive readers to its tribution the same way Google is.” Cur- of Allrecipes. Our brands are still so new; websites. rently there is a slim chance a reader will they need to grow,” says Vogel. “I know I Vogel explains there are three reasons stumble upon an article produced by sound really boring and really cliched. But people use the internet. One is social, to Dotdash if he or she is not looking for it. make great stuff , and people will come, connect with others. That is where He also worries about Dotdash’s vast and you won’t have any problems.” brands like Facebook, Instagram, and challenge of keeping all of its need-to- Twitter thrive. The second, to get infor- know content updated. “It requires a lot Alyson Krueger C’07 writes frequently for mation they want to know: sports scores, to stay up to date in areas like savings, the Gazette.

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Annenberg Center annenbergcenter.org performances cancelled or postponed through June 13; see website for schedule changes.

Arthur Ross Gallery arthurrossgallery.org temporarily closed Penn Libraries library.upenn.edu/ ICA collections/online-exhibits icaphila.org Jews in Modern Islamic Contexts temporarily closed In Sight: Seeing the People of Slought the Holy Land slought.org A Raging Wit: The Life and temporarily closed Legacy of Jonathan Swift World Café Live Ormandy in China: worldcafelive.com The Historic 1973 Tour closed through at least April 30 Marian Anderson: A Life in Song scheduled as of April 1: plus dozens more online Lula Wiles May 28 Kelly Writers House Ward Davis, Special Guest Calendar writing.upenn.edu/wh/ Charles Wesley Godwin May 29 temporarily closed, but visit the Mutlu: The Good Trouble Tour Penn Museum website for links to virtual events, May 30 penn.museum/collections archived programs, PoemTalk A Night Of Nazz And Utopia temporarily closed, but collections podcasts, and the PennSound Music June 1 are viewable online poetry collection. Brother Moses June 10

From the Penn Museum’s online collection: A Pair of Doves, attributed to Yi Yuanji (active 1060s). May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 55 ARTS Screens Remixing the plot.

With a budget of just $50,000 in grant money, Falzone and his team bought the Adventures rights to Nacer Contigo, whose 120 soapy episodes originally aired in 2012, and in Social Media paid to re-script, re-dub, and re-cut it into an entirely diff erent show. The new Paul Falzone’s media escapades range from version focuses on messaging around pirated DVDs to news raps. Now he’s hacking a sexual and reproductive health, birth control, and female empowerment. It’s Venezuelan soap opera for sub-Saharan audiences. been dubbed into both English and French, and is set to premiere on nation- al television in Uganda by June 1, with more countries expected to follow suit elenovelas weren’t made to change “If you turn on a TV in Mozambique throughout the summer. the world, but Paul Falzone Gr’08 or Uganda,” he explains, “mostly what Falzone says he never imagined he’d T believes that with the right tinker- you see are imported telenovelas” from be doing this work, much less spend- ing, maybe they could. Latin America and Turkey. There’s little ing up to half of his time in sub-Saha- For nearly a decade, he’s been turning mystery why. “Audiences like them and ran Africa. As a PhD student in com- entertainment media into tools for so- they’re cheap.” munications at Annenberg, he studied cial change in Uganda through his non- Falzone originally wanted to pro- how US activists were using improved profi t, Peripheral Vision International. duce his own “pro-social” telenovela, video technology and faster internet And now, in one of his most imagina- but when it turned out that would cost connections to organize and spread tive feats yet, that means hacking a millions of dollars, he knew he’d need their messages, particularly through Venezuelan telenovela. another approach. documentaries.

56 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Photo courtesy PVI Now on basic cellphones: climate-themed choose- your-own-adventure games.

He taught media studies for a few Following that same theory, in 2014, pers to write and perform ads in what years after Penn, then landed a consult- Falzone tackled the news. Since Ugan- Falzone calls “a clear knock-off ” of the ing job in New York, working for a coali- da’s median age is just 15, “the more Newz Beat format. (“Rather than suing tion of organizations that were focused you can talk to folks early on, when them, we fi gured that imitation was the on anti-corruption efforts in Uganda they’re still trying to make sense of the sincerest form of fl attery,” he says.) leading up to the 2011 elections there. world and their country, the more eff ec- But in the last few years, faced with When he first got that gig, “I didn’t tive it can be,” he says. He fi gured that a an increasingly restrictive mediascape know where Uganda was on a map,” Fal- young population might pay more at- in Uganda, Falzone has pivoted PVI zone admits. “I could have guessed, but I tention to the news if it was presented away from endeavors like news rap- might not have guessed right.” Soon he as a rap. (Even more to his credit, he porting that are constrained to a spe- was making trips to the East African hatched this idea before Hamilton had cifi c region. Now he’s more interested country, scrutinizing its media landscape shot onto Broadway with its fusion of in projects that can be scaled to reach and drawing on the principles of media hip-hop and political history.) communities all over the world. ethnography that he’d learned at Penn. “At first we thought maybe we could In 2017, PVI won funding from the Falzone quickly clocked the untapped teach reporters to rap,” Falzone remem- MIT Solve Global Challenge for a proj- potential of Uganda’s ambient screens. bers. “That was a mistake. But what we ect aimed at people who own basic cell Although limited access to electricity discouraged many people from having TVs in their homes, “there were screens all over the place—in bars and beauty sa- lons, long-distance buses, and little boot- leg cinemas called bibanda,” he recalls. He developed a project that bought advertising space on pirated DVDs and used the spots for anti-corruption messaging. “Messages about political corruption and bribery and the oil in- dustry were going out on, let’s say, The Expendables on DVD that you’d buy at the market,” he remembers. “That was my fi rst edgy work in Uganda.” After founding PVI in 2011, Falzone continued to create mission-driven con- tent that he estimates has been read, watched, and listened to more than a bil- lion times. While “it started off with just me and a concept,” today his organization includes 15 full-time employees and has raised over $5.5 million in grant support. PVI’s longest-running project, launched did fi nd was that you could take musi- phones. Using those phones, people can in 2012, built on the original DVD ad cians and make them citizen journalists.” dial in to play spoken-word choose- space idea. The nonprofit produces a He asked local journalists to curate a your-own-adventure-style games that straight-to-DVD music video program selection of news stories that a group of are built around topics like climate that sandwiches public-service an- “rap-porters” sifted through and built change’s impact on farming, sexual and nouncements in between popular songs. raps around. Though it went on hiatus reproductive health, contraception, Currently the show goes out to 4,000 in 2018, at its height Newz Beat was air- and other social issues. Today those screens across Uganda every two weeks. ing four times a week on broadcast TV Wanji Games are available in more “People like to be entertained,” Falzone and landing 3.2 million views. Radio than a dozen countries. says. “If you fi gure out what they like—in stations began playing the audio. Peo- Last summer, PVI launched Passion- this case, music videos—that becomes ple sold each other the fi les. Uganda’s fruit Island—a digital graphic novel an opportunity to build an audience.” national telecom even hired PVI’s rap- translated into French, English, and

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Spanish. “It’s gender-positive, sex-pos- itive, and a little bit spicy,” Falzone City Shaper says. He notes that the fi rst issue has been read more than 228,000 times in Gene Kohn refl ects on the consolations over 40 countries. A second install- of corporate architecture. ment is in the works. And now there’s the hacked telenove- la, which Falzone hopes to spread through sub-Saharan Africa and be- make a significant contribution to the yond. “So many TV stations are hungry architectural profession and urbanism.” for content, but they can’t aff ord it,” he More than 40 years later, the 88-year- says. “We want to give audiences some- old Kohn still shows up at the firm’s New thing they want, broadcasters some- York offices every day that he’s in town. thing they want to show, and make it The practice has grown to 700 employ- something that’s going to shape lives in ees spread across nine global offices, and a positive direction—that we can also chances are that you’ve visited or aff ord to make.” worked in some of its 300-plus com- In Uganda, where Falzone has the pleted projects. They include corporate most experience, “people are looking headquarters for ABC, IBM, and Procter to media for the message, not just for & Gamble, and mixed-use mega-devel- the entertainment,” he says. “They are opments like London’s Canary Wharf, hungry for information that will teach Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills, and New York’s them and empower them to have bet- Hudson Yards. In Philadelphia you may ter lives. The problem is that enter- have seen KPF’s work at One Logan tainment is rarely engineered to help Square, the BNY/Mellon building, and people make sense of the world.” As a Wharton’s Huntsman Hall—or passed result, the people his projects aim to Eugene Kohn Ar’53 GAr’57 never by the prominent Broad Street corner reach are “underserved by their gov- wanted to be a starchitect. He where its first-ever residential tower, ernments, underserved by their schools, A. didn’t enter the field dreaming of Arthaus, is now under construction. and desperately underserved by the the kind of attention-getting civic Although the greater public may not existing media.” projects—art museums, central libraries, take much note of such buildings, the “The telenovela is a test balloon,” he cultural centers—favored by folks like architecture world has looked kindly on adds. “If you can get a $50,000 show Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, and KPF’s attempts to elevate the workhors- on 10, 12, 15 nations’ TV stations, what Zaha Hadid. Instead, as he reveals in his es of the built environment. Before the else can you do? I think what’s going to new book, The World By Design: The firm had even celebrated its 10th birth- emerge [in sub-Saharan Africa] in the Story of A Global Architecture Firm, day, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture next decade or two is a shared popular Kohn—along with his founding part- critic Paul Goldberger commended its culture, and it’s going to be televisual. ners, William Pedersen and Sheldon Fox “rise to the front rank of American archi- We’re increasingly thinking about that, Ar’53 (of the eponymous Kohn Pedersen tectural firms” in a nearly 5,000-word and wondering how we can use broad- Fox, now KPF)—“wanted to design com- profile that appeared in the New York cast television really tactically.” mercial projects—such as office towers, Times Magazine. (A few years later he Though Falzone initially fell into apartment buildings, hotels, and retail praised its body of work as possessing working abroad, he’s now hooked on complexes—because they have the most an “abstracted classicism, an attempt to expanding the mediascape in places impact on the public life of cities.” pick up the spirit of the great romantic where media options are sparse. His Office buildings might never be sexy, office towers of the 1920s and ‘30s.”) frequent stays in Uganda have also these three conceded, but “we felt it was And, as Kohn proudly notes in his book, opened his eyes to how cushy life in wrong to ignore them,” Kohn writes. “We KPF has won nine AIA (American Insti- the US can be. “I’m constantly aware wanted to tackle the challenge and make tute of Architects) National Awards. of how much I have, and therefore these buildings work as positive contribu- Kohn says he wrote the book to illustrate how much I owe,” he says. tors to a city’s fabric and a neighborhood’s how the firm’s architecture stems from an —Molly Petrilla C’06 character. If we could do that, we could approach that welcomes client input and

58 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Huntsman Hall (left); Hudson Yards (right).

views design as an opportunity to solve problems, not to make grand gestures. “Most articles and books deal with the famous architect or the famous building,” he says. “No one looks closely at the pro- fession. It’s a lot more than some great designer quickly sketching a building. It’s not about an individual, like a painter or a musician. It’s about a team.” Still, there’s little doubt that Kohn was the firm’s leader from the beginning. As Goldberger observed in his profile:

“Relaxed and casual on the surface, intense and driven beneath it, Kohn … speaks as smoothly as a Southern sena- tor. Unlike many architects, he is at ease among businessmen. He … is as happy to discuss the tax implications of a building project as he is its aesthetics. Real-estate developers and corporate executives who might find other archi- But a professor at Harvard Business ion retailer and designer, encouraged his tects too flamboyant, or too rigid, think School told me he read it in a day and a intellectual and artistic pursuits. Penn they see in Kohn Pedersen Fox a group half and he thinks it will work great for became the “second major influence on that speaks their language.” his students, for people who want to lead me,” he writes. The “excitement at the That business savvy might explain why teams and run businesses.” school,” he continues, “caught me in its Kohn’s book—with its in-depth look at Although most of the book is devoted grasp … Listening to [Lewis] Mumford everything from wooing potential clients to the inner workings of KPF, Kohn was amazing. ... [Ian] McHarg was always to managing a decentralized staff—is begins by painting a quick portrait of his a scene to watch … [Paul] Rudolph was reaching a larger audience than he antic- early life in Philadelphia, where his engaging and always enthusiastic.” ipated. “I didn’t think anyone would read father, William, a one-time medical After a stint in the Navy, he returned it beyond other architects and our clients. researcher, and mother, Hannah, a fash- to Penn to pick up a master’s in archi-

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VISUAL ARTS tecture and then landed at the office of Vincent Kling, which at the time was the largest architecture practice in town. He rose to senior designer but eventually succumbed to the siren call of New York City, where he reconnected with an old Penn pal, Shelley Fox. The two, along with Bill Pedersen, wound up working at the same firm and, in 1975, when Kohn decided to start his own practice, they were the first he invited to join him. “Architecture is actually an incredibly collaborative effort,” he writes. “Bill, Shelley and I knew that from day one … None of us wanted to play the hero.” So after the new firm opened its doors on July 4, 1976 the three quickly fell into the roles they’d keep for the duration of the partnership. (Fox retired in 1996 and passed away in 2006, but Pedersen remains active at the firm.) Kohn became the rainmaker (“I was the most outgo- ing”), Fox took on managerial duties and, yielding to Pedersen’s superior design skills, the trio agreed that the younger architect should become the firm’s lead designer. “Everything that happened afterward flowed from those key moves,” Kohn writes. It wasn’t all smooth sailing. In the book’s liveliest chapter, Kohn revisits an attempted coup at KPF’s London office that occurred in the wake of the finan- cial meltdown of 2008. In six rather thrilling pages, angry dialogue crackles, parties stare down one another, and backs are stabbed. The author admits that the segment has turned out to be “everyone’s favori- We Are The Storm te.” He felt it necessary to include, he During the shortened spring semester, an exhibition of activist poster art adds, because “it was a crisis and I want- lined the east side of Fisher Fine Arts Library. Presented by the Common ed to show how we resolved it and came Press—an old-fashioned printing press located in the building’s basement out stronger because of it.” [“Gazetteer,” Mar|Apr 2008]—and curated by a student advisory panel sup- As Kohn approaches 90, he seems ported by the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, the posters were drawn from wistful about his decision to at last slow the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, a decentralized group of 29 North down. “I like being around talented American artists. people and I like being around young The exhibition featured work from two thematic portfolios. We Are The Storm people,” he says. “I enjoy working with “celebrates the work of small frontline organizations and communities building clients and seeing how pleased they are resilience in the face of climate chaos,” and Migration Now! addresses issues when their projects turn out so well.” pertaining to migrants and asylum seekers. Limited-edition prints of these and —JoAnn Greco other posters are available at justseeds.org.

60 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Images courtesy Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative Bibliography Library of Congress European Mission, 1946. Reuben Peiss in the center, with a pipe.

So they set up an agency that acquired Cloak, Dagger, and foreign publications for the war eff ort. Most of the agents were located in neu- tral cities. Lisbon was very important— Card Catalogues that was the one that Reuben Peiss was A new book explores a World War II–era assigned to. Another was Stockholm, which was of particular interest to me pioneer of open-source intelligence. because the only woman involved in this activity—Adele Kibre—was the head of the Stockholm unit. athy Peiss, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. 1945, he would help sweep hundreds of Nichols Professor of American His- thousands of purchased or confi scated Eu- What were the challenges of that mission? K tory, normally studies the history of ropean books, periodicals, and documents The main challenge was getting timely gender and sexuality. But a chance into American research collections. information. These weren’t secret agents. discovery—an online memorial to an Gazette contributor Julia M. Klein Mainly what they were doing was acting uncle she never knew—led her in an un- talked to Peiss about her latest book, like bookworms. They were going to expected direction. During World War II, Information Hunters: When Librarians, bookstores, to publishers, to academics and trying to get newspapers, [scientifi c] journals, industrial manuals, anything that might give some insight into the eco- nomic and military situation.

How did the mission change over time? After D-Day, this acquisition of mate- rials became much more integrated into military eff orts. There were Target Forc- es, or T-Forces, that followed the troops and gathered up everything.

What was particularly helpful? They found, for example, full records of Nazi-affi liated offi cials.

A May 1946 Allied edict, Order No. 4, call- ing for the confi scation and destruction of all Nazi materials, proved controversial. A lot of books published during the Nazi regime were seen as fostering Nazi or militaristic ideology. And the Allied Mili- Reuben Peiss was an agent of the Offi ce of Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in tary Government for Occupied Territories Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to World War II Europe (Oxford University believed this was a virus that needed to be the Central Intelligence Agency. “I got my Press). Their conversation has been ed- eradicated. The British and the Americans mother on the phone,” Peiss says, “and she ited for length and clarity. were not wholly comfortable with this said, ‘Oh, yes, Reuben was a spy.’” because of traditions of free speech. She ultimately tracked down the man What was the nature of your uncle’s [In the United States], there were a lot who had recruited her uncle into the OSS, wartime work? of editorials saying, “This is like book Frederick Kilgour. Both men were librari- The OSS was interested not only in burning. Americans are just acting like ans. Reuben Peiss would become a pioneer espionage but also in the kind of infor- Nazis.” The military government was of open-source intelligence. First for the mation that appeared in public sources taken aback. They were saying, “You OSS and then for the Library of Congress that might be of use for understanding can’t have American-style civil liberties Mission, which took over the operation in the enemy and the wartime situation. in Germany right now.”

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LIFE’S ACCESSORIES: The solution was to save copies of ev- of which was [now defunct] Dropsie Col- A Memoir and Fashion ery single one of these books for Ameri- lege, got a number of these books. Guide By Rachel Levy can research libraries and the United Lesser C’96 (She Writes Nations library, and ultimately, when It’s a complicated history. What, if any- Press, 2019, $16.95.) In Germany was a democratic state, for thing, should have been done differently? each of these 14 intimate German university libraries as well. I’ve been very unwilling to make a essays, Lesser relives negative judgment about the behavior a memory she has built And Penn retains some of these of the American military or American around a piece of clothing or accessory—a Nazi-era books? cultural leaders or workers. They were scarf given to her by her dying mother, a brace- Penn has a collection. They run the improvising all the time. I’m really quite let purchased online by her widowed father. gamut from ideologists’ books to genre impressed with what they were able to Charming and funny at times, each story is a fi ction—detective stories, romances, and accomplish. The attitude of my uncle poignant look at love, loss, and family. military stories that were produced for Reuben and many of the librarians was, SHE CAME TO SLAY: The German soldiers on the front. “Let’s seize the moment and seize the Life and Times of Harriet By Erica Armstrong stuff .” So it may be that they were too Tubman Dunbar C’94 What other moral conundrums arose? aggressive. What was behind this was (Simon & The question of what can be legiti- this sense that it was a national security Schuster, 2019, $23.99.) mately taken was one that troubled a issue for American libraries to have a Harriet Tubman is best number of the librarians and scholars. total collection of foreign books. known as a conductor on the Underground Book people love books, and they were Railroad, but her legacy goes much further. This fresh take on Tubman’s life, richly illustrated tempted by books, and it’s pretty clear What is the legacy of these efforts? with photos, artwork, and charts, portrays her that some of them took books. There’s a The idea that international acquisitions as a bold and fi ery activist, a fi erce suffragist, certain kind of “spoils of war” notion. would be a key part of American research an advocate for the elderly, and a spy for the institutions was a key consequence. A Union Army during the Civil War. What about the restitution of books second one has to do with information WILD GAME: My Mother, looted from European Jews? science. Some of the librarians involved Her Lover, and Me By They restituted the books that they in handling this massive amount of intel- Adrienne Brodeur G’92 could—to the nation, not to the organiza- ligence material had to come up with (Houghton Miffl in Harcourt, tion or the individual. That’s interna- information management tools before 2019, $27.00.) When tional law. And then there were a number there were computers. Kilgour founded Brodeur was 14, her mother of books that were not identifi able. Many a collaborative database system, now shared a secret that would of the Jews who owned these books had known as WorldCat, the largest interna- bind the two in a web of been killed, or the institutions destroyed. tional bibliographic database. deception against her father: her mother was having an affair with his closest friend. Eager for What happened to those books? You yourself own a book of uncertain her mother’s affection, young Brodeur helped After a couple of years, there were provenance, given to your family by facilitate an elaborate smoke-and-mirrors rou- about 350,000 to 500,000 books that Reuben Peiss. tine with consequences that would reverberate had not been restituted. Several organi- I own this rare book that is Spinoza’s far into her adult life. zations ultimately came together to cre- fi rst book on Descartes’s theories, pub- DESIGN WITH NATURE ate a group called Jewish Cultural Re- lished in the Netherlands in the 1660s. NOW Edited by Frederick construction (JCR). This group made a I got it from my father when I was tak- Steiner, Richard Weller, claim to the American government to ing high school Latin. The book stamp Karen M’Closkey, and Billy become a successor agency for these showed that it was from the Schaff - Fleming, faculty (Lincoln books. About 45 percent went to Israel, gotsch Library, which had been looted Institute of Land Policy, and about 38 percent to the United in 1945. It was an aristocratic library in 2019, $80.00.) In celebration of the 50th States. [Most of the balance went to Af- Silesia, part of Germany at the time and anniversary of architect Ian McHarg’s seminal rica and Latin America]. now part of Poland. Who took the book book, Design with Nature, a team of landscape I do not know. Reuben probably got it architects and planners showcase some of the Does Penn have any? in Berlin. He could have bought it on the most advanced ecological design projects in The Herbert D. Katz Center for Ad- black market. Someone might have the world today. vanced Judaic Studies, the foundation given it to him. There’s no way to know. Visit thepenngazette.com for more Briefl y Noted.

62 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 ALUMNI P.65 P.67 P.69 P.78 Inside a Prison Museum An EPIC System Alumni Notes Obituaries

Beyond Sports A former Penn football star is probably the best sports movie director working today. It’s a title he doesn’t want.

Photo courtesy Warner Bros. May|Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 63 ALUMNI Gavin O’Connor C’86

ich Comizio W’87’s fi rst “The interesting thing about fi lm about small-town Indi- “You know, people meeting with Gavin Gavin,” Comizio says, “is he ana high school basketball. O’Connor C’86 was a used to tell me very candidly, But Ingelsby always wanted keep telling me painful one. Lined up on ‘One day, I’m going to be a fi lm to “strike a balance embrac- I made a sports theR fi eld goal unit, during a writer or producer.’” ing what audiences love 1984 Penn football preseason Melding his athletic roots about sports movies and also movie. I was never practice, O’Connor “ran with his passion for fi lm, trying to give them some- across the line of scrimmage, O’Connor forged ahead with thing diff erent.” So he sought trying to make stuck his forearm into my those Hollywood dreams, out O’Connor, who helped shoulder pad, and literally surging into the mainstream add layers of poignant father- a sports movie.” knocked me on my ass back- in 2004 when he directed son dynamics on top of the wards, stepped on me, and Miracle, based on the true hoops scenes. “As soon as I ran over and blocked the story of the 1980 US men’s got the script done,” Ingelsby kick,” Comizio says. “That’s hockey team’s stunning says, “I thought he was the how I met Gavin.” Olympic upset of the Soviet best person to do this, be- Once they actually got to Union. He’s since directed cause he gets human emo- game, I didn’t want to dumb talking, Comizio quickly two more underdog sports tion and drama and also can it down.” Ingelsby says it learned O’Connor was more movies—Warrior, a 2011 fi lm nail the sports in a really helps that both come from than just a “monster” on the (which he also co-wrote) honest way.” team sports backgrounds. “I football fi eld, where the line- about two brothers colliding O’Connor fi rst aimed to think Gavin and I had the backer helped the Quakers at the end of a mixed mar- achieve that balance with ability to sniff something out win an Ivy League title every tials arts tournament and, Miracle, rewriting parts of if it didn’t look right,” the year he was on the team and most recently, The Way Back, the script after interviewing screenwriter says. “Gavin was graduated as the program’s which features Ben Affl eck as former players and Team so passionate about making single-season record-holder an alcoholic whose road to USA head coach Herb Brooks the kids feel like real players.” for sacks with 9.5 in his se- recovery is charted through a to add more behind-the- Before he even shot the nior season. return to his alma mater to scenes intrigue. “It became a fi rst scene, O’Connor acted “There was also Gavin the coach high school basketball. Rashomon thing,” O’Connor almost like a coach as he ran artsy guy,” says Comizio, a Released on March 6, The says. “Everyone had a diff er- drills and fostered a sense of football standout in his own Way Back suff ered at the box ent perspective on the same camaraderie between the right. He remembers being offi ce due to COVID-19 fears event.” He also sought out ex- young actors—all while help- dragged to a play in which and restrictions (and was cellent hockey players who ing Affl eck acclimate to O’Connor performed, and get- quickly fast tracked to digital could act, rather than actors coaching mannerisms. “He ting a dorm room education streaming once theaters who could skate, to recreate didn’t know basketball very on Scorsese, Coppola, and oth- across the nation were shut- Olympic-level hockey. well,” O’Connor says. “To er famous directors from his tered). But, like the other two, In preparing for The Way make that smell authentic teammate. “I would screen a it earned positive reviews Back, O’Connor was again de- was challenging.” What the lot of movies for Rich,” says from critics and viewers, scor- termined to work with good Hollywood A-lister did know O’Connor, who also used to ing over 80 percent on both athletes but had more wiggle was drinking, having gone head downtown by himself to counts on the review aggrega- room; they couldn’t be too into rehab immediately be- catch fl icks at the Ritz. (The tor website Rotten Tomatoes. good, after all, since they were fore shooting the movie. Quiet Earth, a 1985 post-apoc- Written by Brad Ingelsby— part of a struggling high “This one was tricky because alyptic fi lm from New Zea- whose father, Tom, played school team. As in Miracle, it was so personal. He was land, stands out as a particu- basketball at Villanova and though, the sports scenes feel dealing with his own alcohol- lar favorite from that time. He in the NBA and whose broth- like, well, real sports. “For ism,” says O’Connor, who also says seeing Rocky a de- er, Martin, is a college bas- people who didn’t know the previously directed Affl eck in cade earlier was a “huge mo- ketball head coach at the game, I wanted to make sure the 2016 action-thriller The ment,” because of how it sub- University of Delaware—The they understood the geogra- Accountant. In a social media verted genre clichés by having Way Back feels, in some phy and what everyone was post written shortly before Sylvester Stallone’s character ways, like a modern-day Hoo- doing,” O’Connor says. “For the fi lm’s release, Affl eck lose the big fi ght in the end.) siers, the classic 1986 sports people who do know the said, “It has been a real plea-

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sure to work alongside Gavin there’s no way we get that O’Connor again. He’s the made,” the screenwriter says. type of director who pays at- “Even then, it wasn’t neces- tention to every detail and sarily a slam dunk.” O’Connor nuance of the performance.” admits that, in an era domi- Affl eck’s personal, raw per- nated by streaming TV shows formance came into sharp and big-budget superhero focus when his character’s movies, The Way Back almost tragedy was only fi rst re- feels like it belongs to a diff er- vealed to the audience mid- ent time (or comes from an way through the movie. For independent studio). But he O’Connor, that kind of story- credits the heavy hitters at telling structure—along with Warner Bros. for giving them other aspects that break the money—and largely stay- away from the typical under- ing out of the way. “It was a dog story you might expect hard 35-day shoot, really run- from just watching the trail- ning and gunning. But we er—is what initially drew never got a script note. Basi- him to Ingelsby’s script. “It’s cally, it was like, ‘We’ll see you a character study, and that at the premiere.’” was exciting for me to do Despite the shifting enter- something diff erent,” he tainment landscape, says. “You know, people keep O’Connor still prefers the telling me I made a sports pace of moviemaking to tele- movie. I was never trying to vision (though he did help make a sports movie.” Ingelsby get off the ground Ingelsby feels the same way, with Mare of Easttown, a Doing Time calling it a “drama with a bit forthcoming series for HBO). The longtime head of Eastern State of sports in it.” But when He’s currently running point asked if O’Connor is the best on a Warner Bros. action Penitentiary wants to turn the historic sports movie director work- movie in pre-production ing today, Ingelsby concedes: called Fast, which follows a former prison into more than just a “I don’t think he would want former special forces com- tourist attraction and haunted house. that title—but my answer is mando tapped by the Drug yes.” One website, in its re- Enforcement Administration view of The Way Back, even to lead a team against drug declared in its headline: “The warlords in Afghanistan. hen Sara Jane “Sally” grassroots and civic eff orts to Next Great Sports Movie Di- And the former college foot- Elk GFA’84 GFA’85 fi rst fi gure out what to do with the rector Has Arrived.” ball star who’s already made encountered Eastern deteriorating white elephant. What does O’Connor think a hockey, MMA, and basket- State Penitentiary “It was just so intriguing to of wearing such a crown? ball fi lm could fi nd his way W(ESP), she had no idea that me, from an architectural “No, absolutely not,” he says. back to the gridiron. “To tell she’d wind up spending more standpoint,” she says now. “No. Don’t say it. I don’t you the truth, we have the time at the former prison Eventually, she’d go on to be- want to be.” rights to Lombardi,” he says, than its most notorious in- come the fi rst executive direc- What he does want, Ingels- of the story behind one of the mates ever did. Elk came to tor of a newly formed non- by contends, is to keep mak- NFL’s greatest head coaches. the massive Philadelphia profi t—Eastern State Peniten- ing character-driven fi lms The man who doesn’t want landmark some 35 years ago, tiary Historic Site—dedicated with modest budgets, like The to be pigeonholed then adds: on a fi eld trip as part of her to preserving the building Way Back, even though those “So I may end up doing an- studies in historic preserva- and fundraising for it. are hard to get into theaters. other [sports movie] if it all tion. While still a Penn stu- Twenty years have passed “Our movie, without Affl eck, works out.” —DZ dent, she grew involved in and she’s still at the helm—a

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stint far lengthier than that ages visitors to learn more where federal money was go- prison reform. Grounded in of famed gangster Al Capone, about and ponder the conun- ing to be spent. It was fasci- Quakerism, the approach fa- who spent eight months in a drums of mass incarceration, nating to shift my thinking vored housing criminals by relatively luxurious cell and the “Big Graph,” a 16-foot from rural Iowa to a city like keeping them isolated so that equipped with wooden furni- tall, 3,500-pound sculpture Philadelphia.” they had the opportunity to ture and trappings like rugs, that illustrates the growth of Years later, she returned to repent with dignity. Each lamps, and paintings. It’s lon- US incarceration and how the Penn when Frank Matero cell—equipped with central ger still than the 11 years numbers compare to every (now Penn’s chair of the grad- heating, running water, a fl ush served by “Slick Willie” Sut- nation in the world. uate program in historic pres- toilet, and a skylight, as well as ton, the pugnacious criminal Positioning itself as a ervation) founded the Center its own patch of outdoor who supposedly once said thought leader on America’s for Architectural Conserva- space—provided far more nat- that he robbed banks because status as possessing the tion. To this day, she says, her ural light, air, and privacy “that’s where the money is.” world’s largest imprisoned focus at ESP remains closely than what was the norm. The During her own time, Elk population (approximate- design, and the thinking be- has guided the former prison ly 2.2 million) means the hind it, was copied hundreds through gradual and numer- museum will have to of times by prisons around the ous renovations that have think hard about its exis- world. (By the turn of the 20th brought it to its current con- tence as a tourist attrac- century, though, solitary con- dition as a “stabilized ruin.” tion. “Do people want to fi nement began to be viewed As such, while the building hear about this stuff while as inhumane.) has been safeguarded from they’re on vacation?” Elk Even as the museum’s mis- further decay, its layers of his- asks. “How can we dig sion shifts to embrace the tory—notably, the scars left into why this country is so present and future of Ameri- behind by decades of benign punitive without shocking can incarceration, this heri- neglect followed by the more or lecturing them?” tage will not be forgotten. rapid deterioration after the Such questions might “We still have two Haviland prison was abandoned in seem like a big departure for tied to the materials and con- roofs to repair at a cost of $1 1970—have been honored, not Elk, who initially came to struction methods of the million each,” Elk says, add- erased. Through the years, work at ESP because of her building itself, drawing on ing that all told, about $40 Elk has also led the transfor- interest in architecture. Elk, classes she took during her million worth of work re- mation of the fortress-like site who grew up in Iowa, had stints at Penn. mains, including the restora- into a thriving museum and landed in Philadelphia when No wonder she found “the tion of several outbuildings tourist attraction. Last year her high school sweetheart/ story, the size, and the thought (including the facility’s kitch- marked the 25th anniversary then-husband relocated for a behind Eastern State—that it en) and three cellblocks cur- of its opening to the public. new job. The young couple was an idea embodied in a rently not open to the public, Now, Elk’s poised to steer bought a fi xer-upper on the building—all very captivat- as well as the planned con- Eastern State in a new direc- Main Line and, after they lat- ing.” In March, the Preserva- struction of a visitors’ center. tion. About fi ve years ago, as er divorced, Elk thought may- tion Alliance for Greater Phila- Working in a chilly offi ce the organization started writ- be she could make a career delphia rewarded her for her just down the hall from Ca- ing a strategic plan—with the out of restoring old houses. commitment to the site with pone’s cell and walking those help of board members like When she heard that Penn the 2020 James Biddle Award eerily church-like, incredibly Randall Mason, an associate off ered courses in historic for Lifetime Achievement in solid cellblocks every day gives professor of historic preserva- preservation, she was hooked. Historic Preservation. Elk plenty of time to refl ect on tion at Penn, and University While there, she interned for Opened in 1829 and de- how it must have felt to be architect David Hollenberg the Philadelphia Historical signed by architect John Havi- marooned here. “It’s sobering,” GAr’75—“we saw an opportu- Commission and after gradu- land, the building quickly be- she says. “The notion that if nity to inform visitors about ation, joined its staff . “It gave came the world’s most famous you’re left alone to contem- mass incarceration in the Unit- me a good grounding in the prison. Its iconic radial lay- plate your deeds, you’ll be the ed States,” Elk says. It’s already history of Philadelphia,” Elk out—a central hub encircled better for it. We know that’s made inroads with exhibits like recalls. “My job was to look at by seven long cellblocks—was misinformed now, as is the “Prisons Today,” which encour- old industrial properties part of a movement toward idea that any problem can be

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solved by simply putting peo- ple in an institution.” While sensing the spirits who once called this place home is persistent through- out the year, it’s probably most pronounced during ESP’s popular “Terror Be- hind the Walls.” A longtime Halloween-themed haunted house that has grown to run for nearly two months out of the year, this moneymaker raises two-thirds of the mu- seum’s $10 million operating income and accounts for about one-third of its more than 400,000 yearly visitors. With numbers like that, it’s hard for the institution to distance itself from a 40-minute experience that only briefl y touches on what the museum has to off er and doesn’t exactly align with its renewed mission. But in contrast to its earlier days, Elk points out that visi- tors now interact with actors who portray guards and doc- tors instead of knife-wielding prisoners in orange jumpsuits. And in response to criticism Connecting Divides for the stress it puts on its A “triple minority” television producer just wants people Fairmount neighborhood, the institution has made peace- to listen to each other. able gestures such as arrang- ing off site parking for “Terror” ticketholders and off ering free iaz Patel C’95 is a spe- the freezer where they kept nority” because he’s Muslim, museum memberships to im- cialist in uncomfortable the milk” by older students. an immigrant, and gay. He mediate neighbors. conversations. He’s had “And they said, ‘Why is your generally tried to combat “In a lot of ways, we’ve been no other choice his family holding Americans them the best way he knew very challenged by the success wholeR life. hostage?’” He recalls answer- how: with honesty and open- of ‘Terror,’” Elk says. “So many Patel’s family came to the ing, “I’m not even from Iran. ness. “It’s been a theme of my folks don’t even know we’re United States from Pakistan You’ve got the wrong coun- life,” he notes, “to use conver- open during the day, all day, when he was young, and he try! I’m from Pakistan.” sation to humanize myself every day. When they do come grew up in rural Maryland Those kind of dangerous and to fi nd connection.” and spend two or three hours and West Virginia. As an ele- assumptions fl ared whenever Drawn to Penn because the here, they’re blown away. This mentary schooler during the there was a confl ict in the student body off ered the is just an amazing place.” Iran Hostage Crisis, he re- Middle East, says Patel, who kind of diversity that had —JoAnn Greco members being “pushed into bills himself as a “triple mi- been absent from his early

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life, Patel studied psychology, er NRA members, conserva- “The collaboration for answers learning research skills and tives, liberals, and gun con- the fundamentals of human trol activists. He produced a comes only after you have some behavior. After Penn, he podcast called “The Gun connection with each other. It moved to Los Angeles, where Debate: A Human-to-Human he produced reality televi- Approach,” chronicling their could go off the rails. But it won’t sion shows such as How to fi rst discussion. Look Good Naked, How Do I Patel then branched out because you have a bond, you Look?, and Family S.O.S with into facilitating exchanges have a shared history.” Jo Frost, earning two about other contentious is- Daytime Emmy nominations. sues, recruiting participants But in the fall of 2016, as via social media, and renting frustration built during the out conference rooms in cit- lead-up to the presidential ies across the country (some many had a shared feeling of understanding all the op- election, the TV producer of the stops have included dread about dropping their tions on the table.” It means decided to try to expand his Dallas; New York; Balti- kids off at school. The next shifting your perspective just horizons. The week before more; Washington, DC; St. two phases—Personifi cation enough to see merit in a vari- Donald Trump W’68 was Louis; Los Angeles; Tampa, and Information Gathering— ety of solutions. elected president, Patel flew Florida; Arlington, Virginia; go hand in hand, as each per- Patel is now exploring oth- to Ketchikan, Alaska, on a and Ogden, Utah). After son talks about the experi- er applications for the EPIC whim with his husband and watching for when and ences that are fundamental system, which he believes infant daughter. “Nowhere where “conversations went to their belief systems. “One has helped people learn—or in my real world did I know off the rails and why,” he de- person is personalizing their relearn—the skill of listening anyone who was voting for veloped a method of facili- beliefs while the others are and empathizing. He recent- Trump or felt diff erently tating discourse between information gathering,” Patel ly taped a show based on one [than me],” he says. “And people who start out believ- says. “They’re asking ques- of these conversations, with nowhere in my algorithmi- ing they are diametrically tions to understand.” an audience of strangers cally curated screen world opposed. He calls it the EPIC Patel stresses that people opening up to the group. were any opposing opinions (Equalization, Personifi ca- cannot bring in their sources, “Strangers helping strangers reasonably being presented tion, Information Gathering, only personal experiences can be a very powerful to me.” and Collaboration) system. that have shaped them. thing,” Patel says. Yet, clearly, there were Often people looking to “CNN and Fox have nothing Patel believes the EPIC sys- millions of people whose step across a divide will ap- to do with the people in that tem is scalable. He is working thinking diverged from his. proach him, having heard room,” he says. on ways to train other facilita- So he spent a week in rural about these conversations. Once there is trust, the tors, fi nd sponsors, publish Alaska, talking to as many “Actually getting them to group moves to the fi nal his fi ndings, and create more as he could fi nd. To the fi sh- show up is the real chal- phase. “The Collaboration for sharable videos. He says he’s erman who sat next to him lenge,” says Patel, who answers comes only after you also recently started working in a diner. To the waitress. meets with each participant have some connection with with social psychologist and To a shipbuilder. To a local in advance. “People have to each other,” Patel says. “It New York University profes- state legislator. say, ‘Not only am I willing could go off the rails. But it sor Jonathan Haidt G’91 Those conversations, to come, I’m willing to com- won’t because you have a Gr’92 to co-teach training though uncomfortable at mit the time and energy.’ bond, you have a shared his- sessions about this kind of times, proved valuable as Until we get to an under- tory.” In this phase, the group communication. Patel began his second act: standing, no one gets up. looks for ways to combine “I’m trying to get people to developing a systematized No one leaves.” strategies to help solve learn how to converse again approach to bridging societal The fi rst phase—Equaliza- shared problems. “Collabora- and to have conversation divides. His fi rst attempt was tion—is when participants tion does not necessarily that yields true connection,” in partnership with conser- fi gure out what they have in mean agreement,” he says. Patel says. “That’s how you vative political commentator common. For example, re- “But it does mean actually don’t feel isolated and alone.” Glenn Beck, bringing togeth- garding guns, Patel says hearing the other side and —Emily Rosenbaum C’95 GEd’96

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“I’m continuing to collect UTAH The Penn Club of Utah is proud to cohost antique cars and make the 9th annual Penn Wharton Sundance Schmooze, a gathering of entertainment wine from fruit I grow on industry professionals and friends of film, at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. This complimentary my 170-acre farm in event features a panel discussion with noted alumni in the industry, moderated Pitman, Pennsylvania.” by Penn Cinema Studies Professor Peter Decherney, followed by a catered cocktail —Gerald “Jerry” Nesvold GrEd’74 party. Cohosted by Penn Film and Media Pioneers, Penntertainment, the Penn/ Wharton Club of Los Angeles, PennNYC, dents to engage, using the examples of the and the Penn Club of Westchester and 1956 Rockland Counties, the event will take Parkland students on gun control and Greta Arnold G. Regardie W’56 writes, “I am Thunberg on climate change. I was honored place the weekend of January 23, 2021, pleased to announce the publication of my for my professional and volunteer achieve- with exact details forthcoming. For new book, The Pearl Harbor Congressional ments after college, grad school, and later law updates, follow our website Cover-Up: A True Account of How a Partisan school. While serving as a trial attorney for the (bit.ly/PennUtah) or email Jesse Tendler Congress Misled the American People on the US Department of Housing and Urban Devel- EAS’03 W’03 at [email protected]. Pearl Harbor Attack, December 7, 1941. Fea- opment in Washington, DC, I was on the Chevy turing Historic Lessons on the Failure of Chase (Maryland) Town Council for 24 years, In light of ongoing global health concerns, Leadership to Foresee the Attack and to Avert and I served as mayor for nine of those years. visit www.alumni.upenn.edu/clubs to fi nd War with Japan. It is based on a congres- Austin is the home of Spam, so a tour of the the latest information on Regional Club sional report released on July 20, 1946, after Spam Museum was arranged, as well as a ride events in your area. And be sure to check a lengthy joint committee investigation of the in a classic car in the homecoming parade. out www.alumni.upenn.edu/govirtual for attack. Release of the report followed an 8–2 Thomas Wolfe said, ‘You can’t go home again,’ an abundance of virtual events and vote of the 10-member committee. The book but I think you can, depending upon your digital resources available for alumni. focuses on the well-documented views of the memories and the realities of today.” two dissenting senators, both Republicans, who believed that the report was misleading 1963 1965 to the American people as to responsibility for America’s unpreparedness for the attack.” Idaherma Williams GFA’63 shares that Natvar Bhavsar GFA’65 exhibited his the Idaherma Museum of Art Foundation is artwork at the Philadelphia Art Alliance’s “In- 1962 now a 501(c)(3) nonprofi t. She writes, “In the visible City Philadelphia and the Vernacular second year of ‘The Ida,’ we will have our sec- Avant-Garde” exhibition, January 21–April 4 Steve Stovall W’62 ASC’63 see Seth ond annual art competition. Prizes will be [“Alumni Profi les,” Mar|Apr 2018]. Bergmann GEE’73. given, and we are happy to have new dona- Richard Kopelman W’65 WG’67 writes, Mier Wolf C’62 was recently honored as a tions in honor of loved ones. Go to www.ida- “For the past 15 years I have been working on a distinguished alumnus of his hometown high herma.org to donate.” Idaherma’s latest art book that essentially culminates my nearly 50- school in Austin, Minnesota. He writes, “My exhibitions have been in Barcelona at the year career at Baruch College.” A professor of wife Cathy, daughter Joanna Wolf C’97, and 39th International de Cadaques, and a print management, he has written Improving Orga- Joanna’s older sons, Jamie and Tyler, accom- exhibition in Sofi a, Bulgaria. She was includ- nizational Performance: The Cube One Frame- panied me back to Minnesota for homecoming ed in the Philadelphia Water Color Society’s work (Routledge, 2019). From the press materi- weekend in September. I was presented an 2020 show and the Philadelphia Sketch Club’s als, “[The book] provides a basis for under- award at a full school assembly where I ad- Art of the Flower 2020. She also won third standing, diagnosing, and improving organi- dressed the 9th through 12th grades. The prize in the Medals Show at the Plastic Club zational performance. It is based on the prem- theme of the message was to encourage stu- in Philadelphia in 2019. ise that successful organizations enact prac-

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tices that satisfy three key constituents: the daughter, Mandy, who graduated from Mich- fairs’ $1.2 billion National Research Advisory enterprise itself, customers, and employees.” igan in 2004, is now an excellent skier, but in Council, and received a certifi cate in recogni- her ski fi rst lesson, ‘S’ turns were converted to tion of his service from VA Secretary Robert 1969 a straight downhill run! The central themes Wilkie. David writes, “While on active duty, I include: good sportsmanship, patience, hon- commanded the Air Force’s two largest teach- Dr. Patricia Gabow M’69 GM’70 GM’73 esty, getting along with siblings, learning how ing and research medical centers and served has published TIME’S NOW for Women to share, and other important early life les- for fi ve years as the USAF assistant surgeon Healthcare Leaders: A Guide for the Journey. sons. These books are an outgrowth of stories general for the Medical Corps. As captain and From the book’s summary: “This is a practical I told to my youngest of three children, An- commodore of the Penn 1971 heavyweight how-to book that will help women in health- drea, as she was growing up, to keep her en- varsity rowing team, I’m hopeful that class- care envision their ability to contribute and tertained when we went on vacation. Andrea mates and especially rowers start planning inspire them to lead.” grew to love Fox & Camel stories, and eventu- now for our 50th reunion in 2021!” Jeff rey David Jubelirer W’69 has writ- ally asked me to write them down, but being ten a new book of poetry, Rising Determined a corporate lawyer for Johnson & Johnson 1973 to Live (2020). didn’t allow me the time. Upon my retirement Subhash Singhal Gr’69 received the Elec- from J&J, in September 2016 after 37 years, Seth Bergmann GEE’73 writes, “I com- trochemical Society’s inaugural Subhash Sing- Andrea, now 23, reiterated her request, as did peted in the USATF National Club Cross hal Award, which is named after him, at the my wife, Sherryl. I wrote these books over the Country Championship at Lehigh University 16th International Symposium on Solid Oxide course of the last two years, collaborated with on December 14, fi nishing 10th among men Fuel Cells, held in Kyoto, Japan, in September. an illustrator, and had a book launch and sign- 70 and over on the 8K course. Congrats to The award recognizes “excellence and excep- ing in our home in East Brunswick, New Jer- Steve Stovall W’62 ASC’63 for completing tional research contributions of distinguished sey, on September 15. For me, writing was a a triathlon at age 78!” [“Alumni Notes,” researchers to the science and engineering of nice, relaxing change of pace from lawyering.” Jan|Feb 2020.] solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) and electrolyzers Thomas J. Madden ASC’70 has written Mark Teaford C’73 was awarded the (SOEC), materials, processes, and manufactur- a new book, Love Boat 78. He writes, “The Henry Gray Distinguished Educator Award ing.” Additionally, Subhash was awarded an book is about my search for love and com- from the American Association for Anatomy, honorary doctoral degree in science and tech- panionship on the internet, following the the association’s highest award for anatomy nology by the University of Tartu, Estonia, in death of my beloved wife, Angela, to whom I education. Mark writes, “I graduated from recognition of his “outstanding achievements was married 54 years. So where did I fi nd my Penn in 1973 with a degree in anthropology. in the development of renewable energy in the next wife? In a neighborhood sports bar After grad school at the University of Illinois, world and for integrating the electrochemistry called Duff y’s. So the internet is not always I took a postdoc in anatomy at Johns Hop- researchers of the University of Tartu into the the answer.” kins University in the School of Medicine. I international electrochemical community, then stayed on as a faculty member, rising during the centenary celebrations of the uni- 1971 up through the ranks to full professor, before versity, December 2019.” retiring in 2011. During my last 15 years Ted Munice W’71 writes, “I retired last there, I directed the Medical Gross Anatomy 1970 April after being a consulting actuary for course taught to fi rst-year medical students. over four decades. Since then, I’ve busied I then moved to High Point University to help Michael A. “Mickey” Kaufman EE’70 myself with learning bridge, going to discus- design a new anatomy lab as part of their C’71 has authored a new series of seven chil- sion groups on how to solve the world’s prob- School of Health Sciences. More recently, in dren’s books, known as Fox & Camel, intended lems, auditing classes at Rutgers on interna- 2015, I moved to Touro University California for three- to seven-year-olds. The books in- tional organization, and politics and culture. to help revamp their anatomy program.” clude Raindrops, The Sleepover, The Track And of course, my wife and I also spend time Meet, Vacation Time, The Unicorn, The Stamp with our three grandchildren. I highly recom- 1974 Collection, and The Ice Cream Cone, and they mend grandchildren. Then some days I wake can be found at www.foxncamel.com (soft- up with nothing to do. And I am absolutely Zvi Feine Gr’74 writes, “I have written cover editions are also available on Amazon). OK with that.” Partnerships, Challenges, and Transitions: Mickey writes, “The stories are somewhat Dr. David G Young III C’71, a retired Jewish Communal Service in Romania and biographical. For example, my son, Alex S. brigadier general in the US Air Force, has com- Poland, 1986–2002 (Gefen, 2019). The book Kaufman C’03, threw the javelin for Penn, pleted his four-year term as member and then describes working with both Jewish com- hence the track meet story; and my older chair of the US Department of Veterans Af- munities, within the constraints of Commu-

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EMAIL [email protected] nism, the violent December 1989 revolution 1975 Please include your school and year, along in Romania, the more peaceful transition in with your address and a daytime telephone Poland, and the aftermath of transition to Brad Borkan C’75 G’79 writes, “I recent- number. We include email addresses only democracy. It also describes the challenges ly returned from Antarctica. On the morning when requested or obviously implied. of eff ective communal service in turbulent of the day that we visited Sir Ernest Shack- Please note, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gazette offices are closed until further times, carried out as the representative of the leton’s grave, I was invited to give a guest notice and we cannot retrieve postal mail American Jewish Joint Distribution Commit- lecture to the 114 passengers on the ship. The at this time. tee (AJJDC), and navigating a complex and lecture was based on the book that I coau- DEADLINES 7/15 for the Sep|Oct issue; delicate web of history, religious and cul- thored, titled When Your Life Depends on It: 9/15 for Nov|Dec; 11/15 for Jan|Feb; 1/15 tural mores, personalities, ideals, and hopes. Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the for Mar|Apr; 3/15 for May|Jun; and 5/15 This culminates a career of 34 years with the Antarctic [“Briefl y Noted,” Jan|Feb 2018]. The for Jul|Aug. AJJDC, during which I also served as deputy book focuses on the life-and-death decisions director of JDC-Israel, chief program offi cer, made by early Antarctic explorers like Shack- ditional 10 boards and committees within the and director of North Africa/Asia. I reside in leton. It also looks at what we can learn from Jewish Federation and its agencies.” Israel, in Jerusalem, and currently enjoy re- their situations to help improve our modern- tirement as a volunteer senior consultant to day decision-making.” 1978 AJJDC. I’m married to Dr. Ruth Feine and Allan Kanner C’75, founder and senior part- have fi ve children and 12 grandchildren.” ner at the New Orleans-based law fi rm Kanner Dr. Harold M Levy C’78 D’84 writes, “I Stephen Hall ChE’74, chief process en- & Whiteley LLC, reports that his fi rm was sold my private dental practice in Pikesville, gineer at Genesis AEC, has been elected as named the 2020 Environmental Protection Law Maryland, to go full time into my position as a the 2020 Delaware Valley Engineer of the Firm of the Year by the National Law Journal. general practice group clinical director at the Year by the Engineers’ Club of Philadelphia. University of Maryland School of Dentistry in The award is presented to “a standout local 1976 Baltimore. I married Laura Silberg Miller, an engineer who emulates the qualities and tal- accomplished NICU nurse at Johns Hopkins ents that defi ne professional excellence, Robert Gibson C’76 writes, “I am pleased to Hospital, on Thanksgiving Day 2018, with our civic duty, society leadership, and commu- announce the birth of my fi rst grandchild, Filip- children attending the small ceremony.” nity stewardship.” pa ‘Pippa’ Helena, a Penn Class of 2042 aspirant. Gerald “Jerry” Nesvold GrEd’74 has Pippa joined us on January 14 at Lenox Hill 1979 retired after a long career in education, serv- Hospital in New York, and she is the proud ing as principal of Williams Valley Junior daughter of Aly Gibson C’08 and Matt Mar- Stuart Beckerman C’78, a zoning and land Senior High School and North Schuylkill cucci C’09, and niece of Lauren Gibson C’11.” use attorney, is now a partner at Hirschen Sing- Junior Senior High School; and superinten- er & Epstein LLP, which recently merged with dent of Shenandoah Valley School District 1977 his former law practice, Slater & Beckerman P.C. and Shamokin Area School District, all in Pennsylvania. He also taught a graduate Timothy Houghton C’77 has published 1980 education course for aspiring principals at his seventh book of poetry, Where the Light- Alvernia University for several years after house Begins (Salmon Poetry, 2020). Andrew Kassner C’80 is cochair of Faegre retirement, and he served as interim super- C. Robert Paul C’77 joined the Morrisville Drinker, the combined law fi rms of Faegre intendent of schools for North Schuylkill (Pennsylvania) Borough Council in January Baker Daniels and Drinker Biddle & Reath, School District. He writes, “I’m continuing following his election last November. Bob which launched global operations in February. to collect antique cars and make wine from serves as vice president of the council. Marilynn Katatsky WG’80 has been named fruit I grow on my 170-acre farm in Pitman, Ed Rivkin C’77 has been honored by the Jew- Best-in-State Wealth Advisor for 2020 by Forbes Pennsylvania. My son is H. Peter Nesvold ish Federation of Southern New Jersey with its magazine. She writes, “After almost 25 years C’93, and my granddaughter is in the class H. Richard Dollinger Community Service practicing at Morgan Stanley in the Baltimore/ of 2023 at Penn.” Award. This award is given to a community Washington, DC, area, I’m now based in beauti- John Quelch WG’74, Leonard M. Miller leader that has given their time and eff ort to ful Naples, Florida, where I focus on retirement, University Professor, vice provost, and dean of benefi t the Jewish community over a signifi cant philanthropy, and wealth transfer.” the business school at the University of Miami, time span. Ed writes, “My tenure is more than Dr. Vincent J. Palusci C’80 writes, “I’m received this year’s William L. Wilkie “Market- two decades of volunteer service in the southern writing to announce my seventh book, Unex- ing for a Better World” Award from the Amer- New Jersey community. I am currently an offi - plained Pediatric Deaths: Investigation, Cer- ican Marketing Association Foundation. cer, chair four committees, and serve on an ad- tifi cation, and Family Needs (Academic Fo-

May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 71 ALUMNI Notes rensic Pathology International, 2019). I live in Part-Time Educator Award from the American 1986 Manhattan with my wife, Roslyn Scheiber Association of Endodontists in April. Palusci C’80, and am professor of pediatrics David Blatte W’86 and Sue Dreier Wish- at the NYU School of Medicine. Son John 1983 now C’86 write, “Greetings ’86ers! We know you Palusci C’09 WG’15 and his wife, Meredith want to keep up on what’s happening on campus Boehm Palusci C’09 Nu’10 GNu’14, live in Dr. Marc J. Kahn C’83 M’87 GM’90 has and with our classmates, so please take one quick Concord, Massachusetts; and daughter Katie been appointed dean of the University of Ne- minute to send your current email address to Palusci Siegel W’11 lives with her husband, vada, Las Vegas School of Medicine, after serv- [email protected]. We’ll update you on Penn Professor Joshua Siegel, in Novi, Michigan.” ing as the senior associate dean and Peterman happenings as well as our upcoming 35th re- Prosser Professor at Tulane University School union, in May 2021, which we’ve just started 1981 of Medicine. Marc was also elected as a fellow planning. We also send out quarterly newsletters of the Royal College of Physicians, London, and want to make sure everyone has been receiv- Karen Reardon C’81, associate professor this past October and was elected as a master ing them. And please join our Facebook Group of management and leadership at La Salle of the American College of Physicians. His by searching for ‘UPenn Class of ’86.’” University, is lead editor of In Living Color: new book, The Business Basics of Building and Janet Byron C’86 writes, “I recently joined An Anthology of Contemporary Student Writ- Managing a Healthcare Practice, was pub- the Permanente Federation as manager of ings on Race (2020). She writes, “The book is lished by Springer Nature in November 2019. editorial services, after seven years as senior the result of a cross-campus initiative to give Peggy Wilmoth Gr’83, the fi rst female and communications consultant in the Kaiser Per- student voices on this important topic a nurse to serve as deputy surgeon general for the manente Division of Research. I’m also the wider audience. It is appropriate for class- Army Reserve, was inducted into the US Army coauthor of Berkeley Walks (Roaring Forties room use as well as professional workshops Women’s Foundation Hall of Fame on March 11. Press, 2015), a book of 21 self-guided walking and retreats on diversity and inclusion.” tours in Berkeley, California. In addition, I’m a Amy Shuman Gr’81, a professor of Eng- 1984 semi-newlywed, having married Steven Price, lish, anthropology, and folklore studies at principal of Urban Advantage, in August 2018. Ohio State University, received the 2019 Life- Michael S. Kutzin W’84 became a partner My daughter, Julia Wineger, is a junior at time Scholarly Achievement Award from the at the law fi rm of McCarthy Fingar LLP in White Berkeley High. I’d love to hear from old Penn American Folklore Society. Plains, New York, in February, after practicing friends at [email protected].” Amy Stern C’81, senior vice president of with his prior fi rm for 18 years. He writes, “I will David Steerman C’86, a partner at the 3E Public Relations, participated in a webinar be continuing my work in the areas of estate law fi rm Klehr Harrison, was a course plan- hosted by The Food Institute on April 2, 2019, planning and administration, estate litigation, ner and moderator at a Parenting Coordina- entitled, “Taking Vertical Farming to New and guardianships. In addition, I am coauthor- tion Program that took place in Philadelphia Heights: Discover Marketing Opportunities ing New York Elder Law, published by Matthew on March 2 at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. for Disruptor and Traditional Brands” (more Bender and Company this summer. My wife, In addition to helping plan the entirety of the information at bit.ly/2PXKWUv). Using Aero- Wendy North, and I remain ensconced in Scars- course, he moderated the section “Resistance Farms as a case study, she addressed ways that dale, New York. Our daughter, Caroline, is a se- and Refusal/Alienation and Estrangement— innovations in public relations can help com- nior at Skidmore College, majoring in market- Identifi cation and Explanation: What every panies, from disruptors to traditional brands, ing; and our son, Matthew, is a freshman at NYU PC should know about this topic.” achieve their marketing goals. During her studying fi lmmaking—he wants to be the next tenure as a publicist, Amy has represented Martin Scorsese. I’d love to hear from fellow 1987 nationally recognized brands like French’s Quakers. Feel free to email me at my new email Mustard, Duncan Hines, Finlandia Cheese, address, mkutzin@mccarthyfi ngar.com.” Dennis Coff ey C’87 writes, “I am working and Cuisinart, as well as up-and-coming part-time as a chauff eur for Maine Limousine brands looking to take center stage. 1985 Service in Scarborough, Maine. I’d like to extend an invitation to any alumni living in 1982 Urban Carmel W’85 was elected to a four- or visiting the Portland area to consider call- year term on the Mill Valley (California) City ing Maine Limo at 207-883-0222 for any of Dr. Stephen P. Niemczyk D’82 GD’84, Council. He will serve as city mayor in 2022. their transportation needs.” an assistant program director at Albert Ein- Jeff rey Fink C’85 has been named a part- Judith Reich L’87 is executive partner of stein Medical Center with the Department of ner in the Wellesley, Massachusetts, law fi rm Faegre Drinker, the combined law fi rms of Fae- Dental Medicine and Post Graduate Endodon- of Kerstein, Coren & Lichtenstein, where he gre Baker Daniels and Drinker Biddle & Reath, tics, was presented with the Calvin D. Torneck practices business law and dispute resolution. which launched global operations in February.

72 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 1991 Holy Family University. Recently retired, she sponsible for the company’s business develop- spent over 30 years in the fi eld of continuing ment, strategic initiatives, and business opera- Danné L. Johnson C’91, a law professor medical education teaching physicians, nurses, tions. Outside of work, I recently completed my at Oklahoma City University, has received the and other healthcare providers about new dissertation on Chinese–Latin American rela- Marian P. Opala Award for Lifetime Achieve- medicines to improve patient care. She served tions to complete an MA in global diplomacy ment in Law from the university. in leadership roles in multiple medical societ- from the School of Oriental and African Studies Dr. Maribeth Schreder LeBreton GNu’91 ies and pharmaceutical companies. (SOAS) of the University of London.” Doug ex- GNu’95 was selected to be one of three fi nal- pects to graduate with distinction this summer. ists for the Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania 1993 in the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse 1999 category. The award recognizes nurses demon- Theodore H. (Lewis) Schmiechen strating excellence in nursing, infl uencing the EAS’93 writes, “I’ve legally changed my last Edward W. Chang C’99 has been ap- quality of patient care, creating a collaborative name to Schmiechen, matching that of my pointed to the board of directors of Rails-to- environment for the practice of nursing, mod- husband, John Schmiechen.” Trails Conservancy. The group’s mission is to eling care and compassion, and contributing H. Peter Nesvold C’93 see Gerald “Jer- create a nationwide network of trails and to healing and health in the community. Mari- ry” Nesvold GrEd’74. more bikeable and walkable communities in beth, a registered nurse for over 38 years, is the United States. Edward is a partner at managing clinician of Care Connections at 1994 Blank Rome and vice chair of the fi rm’s Con- Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health. sumer Finance Litigation group. James P. Rosenzweig C’94 has joined Alicia Syrett W’99 writes, “My husband, 1992 Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP as a partner James Major, and I are thrilled to announce in its Real Estate, Banking and Finance, and the birth of our daughter, Alexis Sabine ‘BB’ Rebecca Bratspies L’92, a law professor Restaurant and Hospitality practice groups. Major, on December 1 in New York.” at CUNY School of Law, has been appointed to the New York City Environmental Justice 1995 2000 Advisory Board by Mayor Bill de Blasio. The board aims to create an environmental jus- Kenneth J. Braithwaite II G’95, a re- Tom Kozlik G’00, head of municipal tice plan for the city, as well as develop pub- tired rear admiral of the US Navy and current strategy and credit at HilltopSecurities, was lic-facing data and educational materials. US ambassador to Norway, has been nomi- recently elected to Smith’s Research and Meera Joshi C’92 L’95 has been named nated by President Donald J. Trump W’68 Gradings 2019 Municipal Analysts All-Star principal and New York general manager of to be the next secretary of the Navy. Team, one of the highest honors in public Sam Schwartz, an engineering, planning, and fi nance. While at Penn, Tom served as the consulting fi rm headed by Sam Schwartz 1997 founder and editor of the Fels Journal of City GCE’70 [“Street Fighter,” Mar|Apr 2016]. and State Public Aff airs. He also teaches a Meera is the former chair and CEO of the Christopher R. Friese Nu’97 GNu’01 graduate level public fi nance course at the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commis- Gr’05, a professor of nursing at the University University. sion. She writes, “In this time of rapid change of Michigan, has been named associate director Rebecca Kirsch Schiz C’00 and Douglas in the transportation and infrastructure for cancer control and population sciences at Schiz welcomed daughter Emily Alicia on fi elds, I am excited to lead one of the region’s the university’s Rogel Cancer Center. February 7. Rebecca writes, “Two-year-old most talented group of planners and engi- Jennifer Khoury Newcomb ASC’97 has Henry is a proud big brother and is looking neers as we provide solutions that increase been promoted to chief communications offi cer forward to bringing her to campus soon!” mobility, safety, and sustainability for all.” at Comcast. She will oversee the company’s ex- Linda Thatcher Raichle Gr’92 has been ternal and internal corporate communications. 2001 awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award Joanna Wolf C’97 see Mier Wolf C’62. from the Alliance for Continuing Education in Eric Lomazoff C’01 writes, “The 2018–2019 the Health Professions in recognition of a life- 1998 academic year was a pretty, pretty, pretty good time of dedication to healthcare education and one for me. In October 2018, the University of signifi cant career contributions to the organi- Doug Stambaugh W’98 has been promot- Chicago Press published my fi rst book, Recon- zation, and more broadly to the promotion of ed to vice president, director of strategic op- structing the National Bank Controversy: a healthy world. Linda was also the 2019 re- erations and business development for Simon Politics and Law in the Early American Re- cipient of the Alumni Achievement Award from & Schuster. He writes, “My team and I are re- public. And in May 2019, I earned tenure at

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Villanova University and was promoted to the going compliance with federal securities laws, Douglass Stewart EAS’08 WG’16 see rank of associate professor of political science.” and general business counseling. Melissa Garcia Stewart Nu’09 GNu’13. Emily Loeb C’04, a partner at Jenner & 2003 Block, has been named cochair of the fi rm’s 2009 Government Controversies and Public Pol- Kimberly Meltzer ASC’03 Gr’07 writes, icy Litigation Practice. Prior to joining Jen- Matthew A. Marcucci C’09, an associate “The paperback edition of my second book, ner & Block, she served as associate counsel in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution De- From News to Talk: The Expansion of Opinion in the Offi ce of the White House Counsel. partment at Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, and Commentary in US Journalism, was pub- The National Law Journal profi led her in P.C., has received Long Island Business News’ lished in January 2020 by the State University its March issue as one of Washington, DC’s 40 Under 40 Award. Matthew was also se- of New York Press (the hardcover was published next generation of crisis management law- lected as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers in in April 2019). Drawing on more than 30 inter- yers, or “DC Fixers.” 2018 and 2019. See also Robert Gibson C’76. views with journalists and other industry pro- Brittany Siegal Mennuti W’09 see Kim- fessionals and a decade of published journalis- 2005 berly Siegal Esterkin C’06. tic materials, the book tracks the movement John Palusci C’09 WG’15 see Dr. Vin- toward opinion and commentary—or talk—in Paul M. Farber C’05, artistic director of cent J. Palusci C’80. television, online, print, and radio news. A key Monument Lab and a senior research schol- Meredith Boehm Palusci C’09 Nu’10 part of this work are journalists’ perspectives ar at Penn’s Center for Public Art and Space, GNu’14 see Dr. Vincent J. Palusci C’80. on civility, or the lack thereof, in public dis- has published A Wall of Our Own: An Amer- Melissa Garcia Stewart Nu’09 GNu’13 course. From CNN’s Brian Stelter, to Fox Busi- ican History of the Berlin Wall (University of writes, “Douglass Stewart EAS’08 WG’16 ness Network’s Maria Bartiromo, the Washing- North Carolina Press, 2020). and I are proud to welcome our second child, ton Post’s Paul Farhi, and many other journalists Clara Maria Garcia Stewart. Clara was born from CBS, USA Today, POLITICO, and Huff Post, 2006 at Bryn Mawr Birth Center on December 26, the interviewees are key fi gures in journalism.” weighed seven pounds and three ounces, and Kimberly is an associate professor and chair of Kimberly Siegal Esterkin C’06 writes, “As measured 19-3/4 inches long.” the Department of Communication at Mary- a proud older sister, I’d like to congratulate my Pamela Yau C’09 has been promoted to the mount University in Arlington, Virginia. sister Brittany Siegal Mennuti W’09 on the position of assistant teaching professor of arts Alexander Rivera CGS’03 writes, “Jessica start of her incredible passion project, Cheese administration and museum leadership at Kroes and I were married on February 22 in the Day. While Brittany has a very successful Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Cartagena, Colombia, surrounded by family career at Facebook, with a love for food and an Arts and Design. She has previously taught in and friends. We live in Center City Philadel- incomparable creative eye, Brittany has some- Columbia University’s Teachers College’s grad- phia. Jessica is an ob-gyn at Holy Redeemer how found the time in her busy day to take a uate arts administration program. Prior to Hospital in Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania, and traditional cheese plate and makes it so much teaching, Pamela had spent the past decade I lead digital strategy and content distribution more. Smoked mozzarella and fresh gouda are working in arts marketing and public relations at the Philadelphia Inquirer. “ accompanied by truffl e almonds, dried figs, and and had served as the special projects coordina- chocolate covered cashews. Just thinking about tor for the City of Philadelphia’s Offi ce of Arts, 2004 it makes my mouth water, but my words do not Culture, and the Creative Economy. do it justice. Check out these artistic master- Jody Alessandrine G’04 has been ap- pieces on Instagram @cheese_the_day_.” 2010 pointed director and CEO of Mid-Atlantic Michael D. Sloan C’06 has been elected Center for the Arts and Humanities in Cape as a shareholder at the law fi rm Carlton Sean Homsher GEd’10 writes, “I’m proud May, New Jersey, which promotes the pres- Fields. He works out of the West Palm Beach to announce the opening of Blue Bell Equine ervation, interpretation, and cultural enrich- offi ce in Florida. Assisted Therapy (www.bluebellequineas- ment of the Cape May region. David Snyder C’06 has been promoted to sistedtherapy.com), in Blue Bell, Pennsylva- Elizabeth Lange C’04, an attorney, has partner at the law fi rm Akin Gump. He works nia. Because horses are particularly patient, been elected partner at Faegre Drinker. She out of the New York offi ce. perceptive, and attuned to displays of anger, works out of the fi rm’s Philadelphia offi ce and fear, agitation, and despair, they are able to represents public and private clients in a va- 2008 mirror human moods in a nonjudgmental riety of corporate and securities matters, in- way without motive, or expectations. As a cluding mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, Alexandra Gibson C’08 see Robert Gib- person in therapy bonds with a horse, self- venture investing, corporate governance, on- son C’76. awareness grows and emotional healing of-

74 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 ALUMNI IN BUSINESS ten takes place. Traditional talk therapy is 2015 A guide for Gazette readers seeking to reach also off ered to clients seeking assistance with the business services of Penn graduates. anxiety and depression, autism spectrum Akshay Khanna G’15 WG’15, general disorder, parenting and children’s behav- manager of sports at StubHub, has been in- ioral issues, grief illness and end of life, rela- cluded in Sports Business Journal’s “Forty tionships, separation and divorce, sports and Under 40” list for 2020. artistic performance anxiety, LGBTQIA is- Katelyn Wright GNu’15 writes, “We re- sues, and personal empowerment through cently welcomed our third baby into our fam- my psychotherapy practice Blue Bell Mental ily. Silas Grey was born on December 5 at Health (www.bluebellmentalhealth.com).” 4:40 p.m., weighing seven pounds and four Megan Nelson Ratwani Nu’10 GNu’15 ounces. Little man completes our family.” writes, “Connor Ratwani was born August 5. He joins his sister Charlotte (fi ve) and brother Pat- 2016 rick (three). I currently work at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, where I have been Nick Cherukuri LPS’16 is founder and since graduation as I was a Sands Scholar.” CEO of ThirdEye, creator of the lightest MR New York Real Estate Expert /3#(!Ũ€Ũ &&#(!Ũ€Ũ (.#(! glasses at just 300 grams (called X2 MR Glasses). He writes, “At Wharton, I started Jane F. Katz 2011 Licensed Real Estate Salesperson an AR/VR club that quickly grew to several m 917.887.5309 | o 212.360.2288 Lauren Gibson C’11 see Robert Gibson C’76. hundred participants. Using a combination [email protected] Dr. Katie Marks-Cogan GM’11 and her of that experience and bringing in experi- 1226 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10128 team at Ready, Set, Food secured a deal of enced engineers, I was able to create Third- $350,000 from investor Mark Cuban on the Eye in 2016, which has grown rapidly since.” January 19 episode of Shark Tank. Their Nick holds multiple patents in the augment- start-up off ers all-natural food allergy pre- ed and mixed reality fi eld, and he is a recent For advertising information, contact vention products for babies. The clip can be Forbes 30 Under 30 award recipient in En- Linda Caiazzo at [email protected] viewed at bit.ly/30Q7ZEZ. terprise Technology. 215-898-6811; Fax: 215-573-4812 Katie Palusci Siegel W’11 see Dr. Vin- Travis Mitchell GEd’16 has joined Mary- cent J. Palusci C’80. land Public Television as senior vice presi- dent and chief content offi cer. Prior to this Anthony R. C. Hita GFA’18, an architec- 2012 appointment, he was chief content offi cer for tural conservator at LimeWorks.us, writes, “I University of North Carolina Television. was recently appointed by the City Council Bethany Donaphin WG’12, head of op- of Doylestown Borough (Pennsylvania) to erations at the WNBA, has been included in 2018 serve a three-year term on the Historic and Sports Business Journal’s “Forty Under 40” Architecture Review Board. HARB reviews list for 2020. Aaishwariya Gulani W’18 was recently and advises the City Council on external Natalie Franke C’12 is cofounder of Ris- selected to be Miss India USA 2019–20 at a changes to historic buildings in the Borough’s ing Tide, a community of freelancers, and beauty contest for young women of Indian historic district.” head of community at HoneyBook, a business descent who are residents of the United Tiff any Yau C’18 SPP’19 is founder and and fi nancial management platform for free- States. Aaishwariya will go on to represent CEO of Fulphil, a nonprofi t that teaches high lancers. She has been featured in Huffi ngton the United States at the Miss India World- school students social entrepreneurship skills. Post, New York Times, NPR, Forbes, Bustle, wide pageant in Mumbai in October. Aaish- Recently, she was interviewed for a Forbes and speaks at 15–20 conferences per year. wariya writes, “I am humbled and honored article, which can be viewed at bit.ly/2TS00FM Learn more about her endeavors on Insta- and want to truly thank the entire Penn and (“Bringing Entrepreneurship Education to gram or Twitter @nataliefranke. Wharton community for all the support and Students in Underserved Communities: Inter- experience I gained during my time there. As view with Tiff any Yau,” January 16, 2020). Tif- 2014 a proud Penn alumna, I will always look back fany writes, “I am pursuing this full time out to my time at Penn as some of the best and of my passion for wanting to inspire more Heidi K. Ricker GNu’14 writes, “We just formative years of my life which have truly students and youth to give back to Philadel- had our second baby, Xander Michael Ricker. shaped me to be who I am today and to re- phia instead of leaving it for other cities.” He was born on November 4.” ceive this great title.”

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ALUMNI Obituaries Notifications

Please send notifications of deaths of alumni directly to: Alumni Records, 1933 1944 University of Pennsylvania, Suite 300, Lola Medoff May Ed’33, El Paso, TX, a Dr. Milton Dalitzky D’44, Lake Worth, 2929 Walnut Street, Phila., PA 19104 EMAIL [email protected] retired high school language arts teacher; FL, a retired dentist; Jan. 10. Newspaper obits are appreciated. Jan. 5, at 106. Elizabeth G. Shook OT’44, Egg Harbor 1940 City, NJ, Dec. 7. Dr. Robert Leighton C’40 V’41, Davis, 1945 1948 CA, professor emeritus of veterinary surgery Edward A. Breuninger W’45, Pocono Edgar T. Gibson GM’48, Boothbay, ME, at UC Davis; Jan. 22, at 102. He served in the Pines, PA, retired president of a dairy com- a retired surgeon; July 16, 2017, at 102. He US Army during World War II. pany; Feb. 25. He served in the US Army Air served in the US Army during World War II. Eleanor Huston Scott Ed’40 GEd’41, Corps during World War II. Milton M. Grover Jr. GM’48, Gaines- Cape May Point, NJ, Oct. 26, at 100. At Penn, Dr. Richard W. Brown Jr. V’45, Boulder ville, FL, a retired radiologist; May 20, 2017. she was a member of Delta Delta Delta soror- City, NV, a retired research veterinarian; Jan. Richard J. Hanak MTE’48, Wynnewood, ity and the Mortar Board Senior Society. One 25. He served as a veterinarian for the Unit- PA, a retired computer programmer; July 2, granddaughter is Elizabeth Mairs GEd’12. ed Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Admin- 2018. He served in the US Merchant Marine istration during World War II. during World War II. 1941 Dr. Harry R. Bruhn D’45, Kennett Square, Dr. Paul W. Petcher M’48, Chatom, AL, Leon S. Bolotin W’41, San Diego, retired PA, a former associate professor of anatomy and a retired physician; May 12, 2019. president of his family’s furniture business; physiology at Penn Dental in the 1950s and 1960s Marjory Richards HUP’48, Mechanics- Dec. 31, at 99. He served in the US Army Air who later had a private dental practice; Jan. 6, at burg, PA, Feb. 5. Corps during World War II. At Penn, he was 100. He served in the US Navy Medical Corps. David W. Roseboro GEd’48, Peach Bot- a member of Penn Players and the swim- tom, PA, a retired high school health and ming team. 1946 physical education teacher; Feb. 6. He served Mary Wieland Lauff er GEd’41, Annapolis, Betty Kauff man Pryor DH’46, West Ches- in the US Army during World War II. MD, a retired teacher and coach in Pennsylvania; ter, PA, a retired dental hygienist; Dec. 13. Arthur H. Schwartz C’48, Mechanics- Jan. 14, at 101. She was an alternate for the US Dr. Paul H. Ripple M’46, Lancaster, PA, burg, PA, retired deputy director for the Penn- fi eld hockey team in 1940 and later a three-time a retired ophthalmologist; Jan. 23. He served sylvania Department of Labor; Dec. 25. He golf champion at the National Senior Games. in the US Air Force Medical Corps. served in the US Army Military Intelligence Marion Briner Woods HUP’46, Win- Division during the Korean War. At Penn, he 1942 ston-Salem, NC, Jan. 8. was a member of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. Jerome “Jack” Abrams W’42, White Plains, Dr. Joseph O. Stevens C’48 D’52, Orbi- NY, a former executive of a coating products 1947 sonia, PA, a retired dentist who maintained company; Jan. 14, at 99. He served in the US Aileen Zurbrugg Friedel Mu’47, Astoria, a practice for 50 years; Jan. 26. He served in Army Air Forces during World War II, and NY, an accomplished cellist who also taught the US Army Air Corps during World War II. was a prisoner of war for more than a year cello at several colleges; Feb. 5. Her sister is Claire Dankworth Stratton Ed’48, after his aircraft was shot down. At Penn, he Regina Zurbrugg Koontz Mu’49. Havertown, PA, a retired librarian at Haver- was a member of Kappa Nu fraternity. His Charles W. Hitschler Jr. W’47, Philadel- ford Senior High School; Jan. 16. At Penn, she son is Steven J. Abrams W’74 WG’74, and one phia, a retired sales manager at a wholesale was a member of Chi Omega sorority. grandchild is Royce C. Abrams W’10. food distributor; May 19, 2017. His son is Reba Heskel Pollock CW’42, Philadel- Charles W. Hitschler III W’73, and one 1949 phia, a retired social worker; Jan. 23. daughter is Barbara H. Serrill CW’72. Martin Bachman W’49, Lafayette Hill, Dr. Marian Willis LeFevre G’47, New- PA, a retired CPA; Sept. 16. He served in the 1943 ton, MA, a retired physiologist at Brookhav- US Army during World War II. His daughter Dr. Kleona Brown Corsini CW’43 M’47, en National Laboratory; Jan. 14. is Marjorie Bachman Boxbaum CW’74, and Honolulu, retired branch chief of the Hawaii Dr. Leonard S. Weiss WG’47 GM’53, his son is Joseph M. Bachman C’80. State Department of Health; Aug. 16, 2018. Hollywood, FL, March 24, 2019. Two sons are Helen Elizabeth “Betty” Beirne Barrett Dr. R. Alan Fawcett M’43, Wheeling, WV, Dr. Robert M. Weiss C’70 and Dr. Richard G. SW’49, Towanda, PA, a retired social work a retired ophthalmologist; Sept. 7, 2017. He Weiss C’78. One daughter is Gail W. Browdy consultant; Jan. 10. One son is Daniel J. served in the US Army. Storch CW’68. Barrett W’74.

78 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 Madalene Mark Bing Ed’49 GEd’49, Co- Jack S. Cochrane Jr. Ar’50, Quebec, 1951 lumbus, OH, a retired elementary school music Canada, a pastor and professor of English Estelle Greenwald Bienstock Ed’51 teacher; Jan. 5. At Penn, she was a member of and linguistics at the Université de Sher- GEd’52, Margate City, NJ, a retired teacher Mortar Board Senior Society and the chorus. brooke; Jan. 31. He served in the US Army at Atlantic City High School; Feb. 3. Frances Cormick Carter CW’49, Chicago, during World War II. Thelma “Dovie” Yentis Carter CW’51, a retired substance abuse therapist; Jan. 29. Dr. Marilyn Rohrer Curran CW’50 Philadelphia, a retired offi ce manager at a law H. Robert Davis Jr. C’49 M’53, Carlisle, M’54, Chesapeake, VA, a former clinical fi rm; Nov. 11. Her daughter is Audrey C. Bred- PA, a retired physician; Dec. 9, 2017. He assistant professor of psychiatry at Penn; hoff C’76, and her son is Steven L. Carter C’79. served in the US Army Air Corps during Jan. 19. She also maintained an outpatient Jerome H. Eichert W’51, Anderson Town- World War II, remained active in the Army psychiatry practice and staff positions at ship, OH, retired CFO of Carlisle Corporation, Reserve, and did two tours as a physician area hospitals. Two sons are Dr. Charles a franchise and real estate management com- during the Vietnam War. Walter Curran Jr. C’82 M’86 and Gerald R. pany; Aug. 28. He served in the US Army. At Christine Schaefer Gates CW’49, Lake Curran C’86. Penn, he was a member of the Army ROTC. Forest, IL, Dec. 13. At Penn, she was a mem- Robert H. Dalzell W’50, Lexington, KY, Horace “Hod” G. Jacobs W’51, Roch- ber of Penn Players. a retired electrical engineer who worked on ester Hills, MI, retired vice president of Richard “Dick” Guba EE’49 GEE’56, military aircraft; Feb. 9. He served in the US marketing at Eldorado Tires; Feb. 9. He Englewood, FL, a retired engineer; Dec. 22. Navy during World War II. At Penn, he was served in the US Army during World War II. He served in the US Army during World War a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. At Penn, he was a member of Delta Kappa II. At Penn, he was a member of Lambda Chi Daniel H. Erickson III L’50, Sterling, Epsilon fraternity. Alpha fraternity. VA, a retired attorney; Feb. 17. He served in Dr. Elizabeth Schwartz Lamb CW’51, D. Bruce Hirshorn ME’49, Philadelphia, the US Navy during World War II. Sierra Madre, CA, a retired physiatrist for the Jan. 1. His brother is Paul M. Hirshorn C’62 Richard S. Franken W’50, Voorhees, NJ, Veterans Administration; Feb. 15. After re- GCP’64 GAr’72. retired founder and head of a fi re alarm com- tirement, she obtained her juris doctor de- Dr. Guy H. “Pete” Michael Jr. M’49, Mor- pany; Jan. 23. At Penn, he was a member of gree. At Penn, she was a member of Pi Mu gantown, WV, a retired physician; Feb. 1. Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity and the Daily Penn- Epsilon mathematics fraternity. Julian Siegal C’49, Livingston, NJ, Feb. 16, sylvanian. Sally Kneeland Parsons DH’51, Farming- 2019. At Penn, he was a member of Zeta Beta Dr. Henry A. Geidel Jr. D’50, Columbia, ton, ME, a former dental hygienist; Jan. 26. Tau fraternity, the Daily Pennsylvanian, and SC, a retired dentist; Jan. 4. He served in the Edward A. Roussos W’51, Bloomfi eld, the Army ROTC. Three sons are Dr. John D. US military. CT, a public school teacher; Jan. 5. He served Siegal C’77 M’82, Dr. Todd L. Siegal C’79, and Ione Kemp Knight G’50, Kilmarnock, in the US Navy during World War II. Dr. James Ross Siegal C’82 D’86. One grand- VA, professor emerita of English at Meredith Wilbur N. Steltzer Jr. C’51 GEd’57, West daughter is Kimberly Siegal Esterkin C’06. College; Jan. 4. Grove, PA, a retired biology teacher and Dr. Richard K. MacMillan C’50, Phoe- middle school principal; Jan. 20. He served 1950 nix, a retired physician; Feb. 18. He served in in the US Navy. At Penn, he was a member of Dr. Lionel A. Bernson C’50, Dallas, PA, the US Navy during World War II. Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and the Navy/ retired director of adolescent and child psy- Dr. Abraham H. Miller C’50 M’54, Marine ROTC. chiatry and professor at the former Univer- Gaithersburg, MD, a retired physician at Robert Torgler W’51, Norfolk, VA, a retired sity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; Boeing; Jan. 16. He served in the US Public IBM executive; Jan. 19. He served in the US Feb. 6. He served in the US Air Force. At Penn, Health Service. Army during the Korean War. At Penn, he was he was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi frater- John P. Reading Jr. W’50, Cincinnati, a president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. nity and WXPN. retired director of public relations for Cincin- Howard L. Underwood G’51, Vestavia, Wayne W. Brown C’50, Bridgeport, CT, nati Milacron, a manufacturer of plastics AL, a retired trust offi cer at a bank and own- Sept. 10. At Penn, he was a member of Zeta processing equipment; Feb. 21, 2018. He was er of a profi t-sharing consultancy; Feb. 2. He Psi fraternity and the sprint football and a veteran of World War II. At Penn, he was a served in the Alabama Air National Guard. track teams. member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Dr. Chester L. Wagstaff M’51, Washing- Dr. Sidney N. Busis GM’50, Pittsburgh, a Robert J. Stradling GEd’50, Elkton, MD, ton, DC, a retired obstetrician; June 11, 2018. retired ear, nose, and throat physician; March a retired teacher; Jan. 7. He served in the US Army. 22, 2019. He served in the US Army during Jerome A. Weinberger W’50, Cleveland, Dr. Milton C. Westphal Jr. M’51 GM’55, World War II. Two sons are Dr. Neil A. Busis former chairman and CEO of Gray Drug Santee, SC, former chairman of the Depart- M’77 and Richard J. Busis C’75 G’80, and one Stores; March 21, 2017. At Penn, he was a ment of Pediatrics at the Medical University granddaughter is Deborah B. Busis C’05 SPP’10. member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. of South Carolina; Jan. 2.

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1952 1953 special assistant to Secretary of Health, Educa- Henry J. Abraham Gr’52, Washington, Luther H. Ginkinger Jr. Ar’53, Norristown, tion, and Welfare John W. Gardner. He served DC, former professor of political science; PA, Feb. 1, 2019. He served in the US Navy. At in the US Army. At Penn, he was a member of Feb. 26. He joined the faculty as an assistant Penn, he was a member of the Navy ROTC. Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Sphinx Senior Society, professor of political science soon after re- Dr. Edward N. Green D’53, Westerville, and the wrestling team. His sons are Thomas H. ceiving his PhD and was later promoted to OH, a retired dentist; July 13. Jones C’90 and Andrew Jones C’93. associate professor. While at Penn, he was Richard H. Greenberg W’53, Studio Jerdon E. Kutz C’54, Lakewood, OH, for- awarded one of the fi rst Faculty Awards for City, CA, a real estate developer; Dec. 27. He mer head of a hardware company; Jan. 14. Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, served in the US Navy during the Korean He served in the US Navy. At Penn, he was a earned a Fulbright Lectureship to Aarhus War. At Penn, he was a member of Zeta Beta member of the track team. University in Denmark, and was selected as Tau fraternity and the sprint football team. J. Alan Lauer W’54, Panacea, FL, a re- a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. In 1972, Dr. Howard M. Grey C’53, Highlands tired actuary; July 22. He served as chief he began teaching at the University of Ranch, CO, former president and scientifi c actuary for the State of Pennsylvania under Virginia, where he remained until his retire- director of La Jolla Institute for Immunology; Governor Dick Thornburgh. At Penn, he was ment in 1997. Born in Germany, he came to Dec. 23. At Penn, he was a member of Tau a member of Theta Xi fraternity. the US as a refugee at age 15 and was draft- Epsilon Phi fraternity. Robert E. McVay Jr. Ar’54, Webster, NY, ed into the US Army, where he served as an Dr. Paul W. Husted V’53, Fort Collins, a retired employee of Xerox; Jan. 1. At Penn, intelligence offi cer during World War II. His CO, a retired veterinarian for the US Air he was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity. wife is Mildred K. Abraham G’54. Force Veterinary Service; Jan. 3. He later be- Roberta Wolff Nehlig G’54, Willow Grove, Anne Savage Barnum CW’52, Scarbor- came assistant professor of small animal PA, retired head of the foreign language depart- ough, ME, a school reading specialist; Feb. 1. medicine at Colorado State University. ment for an all-girls boarding school; Decem- At Penn, she was a member of Kappa Kappa James M. Kline W’53, Clermont, FL, a ber 26. She also worked for the CIA. Gamma sorority, and the badminton, basket- retired auditor for General Electric; Jan. 5. Phyllis Rubin Polk CW’54, Philadelphia, ball, fi eld hockey, and tennis teams. He served in the US Air Force. a former public relations offi cer for the City Aileen Sallom Freeman CW’52, Scran- Frank A. Magarace WEv’53, Sudbury, of Philadelphia; Nov. 22. At Penn, she was a ton, PA, an artist and author; Jan. 18. At MA, an international fi nance executive; April member of WXPN. Penn, she was a member of Alpha Omicron 16, 2019. George D. Schoenberg GEd’54, Calver- Pi women’s fraternity. Dr. Robert “Perry” T. Reeves M’53, Lake- ton, NY, a former music schoolteacher and Eugene Hondorf W’52, Saint Augustine, wood, NJ, a retired radiologist and radiation church organist; Jan. 24. He served in the US FL, a retired manager at Allstate Insurance; oncologist; Jan. 15. He served in the US Navy. Army Air Forces during World War II. His Dec. 2. He served in the US Army. At Penn, daughter is Christine A. Schoenberg L’77. he was a member of the swimming team. 1954 Ida Freeborn Sellinger OT’54, Clifton, Marilyn Carr Maher HUP’52, Atco, NJ, Dr. William Blair Anderson GM’54, NJ, a former bookkeeper for her late husband a retired elementary school nurse; Dec. 26. Durham, NC, a pediatrician and child psy- William Sellinger L’56’s law fi rm; Dec. 30. At Dr. H. Foster Mitchem Jr. D’52, Cary, chologist; March 1, 2019. He served in the US Penn, she was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi NC, a retired dentist; Feb. 7. He served in the Army during World War II and in the US Air sorority. One son is Timothy S. Sellinger L’88. US Army during World War II. Force during the Korean War. Norman J. Wohlken C’54, Lacey, WA, a Murry J. Waldman L’52, San Francisco, Ernest J. Bobick W’54, Saint Louis, for- former manager at Bank of America; Feb. 1. a retired attorney; Jan. 15. At Penn, he was a mer president of Promotional Options; At Penn, he was a member of Sigma Chi fra- member of the Law Review. March 20, 2018. ternity and Friars Senior Society. Warren M. Wells Jr. C’52, Needham Robert N. Botwin GME’54, Bellmore, NY, Heights, MA, a retired sales manager for a a propulsion engineer for the aerospace and 1955 paper mill; Feb. 2. He served in the US Navy. defense technology company Northrop Grum- James F. Cavanaugh W’55, Dataw Is- At Penn, he was a member of Zeta Psi frater- man who worked on NASA’s lunar modules; Dec. land, SC, a retired CPA in the cable TV indus- nity, Mask & Wig, Friars Senior Society, and 26. He served in the US Army Chemical Corps. try; Feb. 6. He served in the US Air Force. At the rowing team. One daughter is Elizabeth Thomas O. Jones CE’54 WG’58, New York, Penn, he was a member of Phi Delta Theta Warren Meyer C’94. former president and CEO of Fifth Generation fraternity and the lacrosse team. Philip H. Young C’52, Lexington, VA, a Computer, known for developing speech recog- Paul L. Giuff re G’55, Fort Smith, AR, a re- minister; Feb. 5. At Penn, he was a member nition applications in the public telephone net- tired attorney; Jan. 2. He served in the US Navy. of Acacia fraternity and the Penn Band. work; Feb. 5. He was a White House Fellow Herman Goldstein WG’55, Madison, WI, under President Lyndon Johnson and served as a professor emeritus of law at the University

80 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 of Wisconsin; Jan. 24. He received the 2018 Weiss Snitzer CW’60, and his daughter is Bar- eral medical textbooks and served as president Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his con- bara Solit C’92, whose husband is Dr. David of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. tributions to modern policing. Brian Solit C’91 M’95. Two grandchildren are He served in the US Public Health Service Dr. Alexander P. Greer M’55, Spokane, WA, Abigail C. Solit C’20 and Joshua Snitzer C’21. Commission. As a student at Penn, he was a a retired doctor; Feb. 6. He served in the US Roy W. Sullivan Jr. C’55, Wilmington, DE, member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. His wife Army. His wife is Dorothy Latimer Greer OT’54, an advertising and public relations professional; is Dr. Ellen Patz Myers GEd’75 Gr’87. one son is Dr. William R. Greer M’93 GM’97, and Dec. 4. At Penn, he was a member of Theta Chi Nancy Bendel Ryon CW’56, Gainesville, his sister is Florianne Greer Meldrum CW’51. fraternity and the Daily Pennsylvanian. FL, a retired psychologist; Feb. 2. Her hus- Dr. Robert N. Helton GM’55, Anaheim, CA, band is Dr. Dale S. Ryon M’57. a retired obstetrician-gynecologist who was also 1956 Marianne K. Scanlon Nu’56, Saint Pe- a clinical professor of surgery at the University Dr. George I. Balas M’56, Collierville, TN, tersburg, FL, a retired psychiatric nurse; Jan. of California, Irvine and a former mayor of Villa a retired anesthesiologist at the University of 22. One daughter is Elisabeth Scanlon Nu’85, Park; Dec. 31. He served in the US Air Force. Tennessee; Feb. 7. He served in the US Army and her son is Richard J. Scanlon C’80 WG’86. Manya Lerner Kamerling CW’55, Cher- as a war crimes interpreter, and he retired as James H. Tinsman Jr. C’56 G’60, Read- ry Hill, NJ, a retired attorney; April 5, 2019. a captain in the US Navy Medical Corps, pio- ing, PA, professor emeritus of anthropology At Penn, she was a member of Sigma Delta neering in the area of regional anesthesia. at Kutztown University; Jan. 2. He also Tau sorority, Mortar Board Senior Society, Thomas M. Collins W’56, Wallingford, owned and operated a used bookstore. He Phi Beta Kappa, and Penn Players. Her hus- PA, a retired pharmaceutical executive; Jan. served in the US Army. His sister is Nancy band is Dr. William Kamerling C’52 GM’58. 15. He served in the US Navy. At Penn, he was Tinsman Rector CW’53. Her son is Dr. Joseph M. Kamerling C’84, who a member of the basketball team, Zeta Psi William M. Winship III WG’56, Darien, is married to Susan Nudelman Kamerling fraternity, and the Navy ROTC. His son is CT, an executive in the printing industry; Nu’84 GNu’88; and one daughter is Debra Thomas F. Collins C’86 GAr’92. Feb. 2. Kamerling Stern W’87 WG’92, who is married Richard J. Fox WEv’56, Penn Valley, PA, to Dr. Robert Marc Stern D’87. Four grand- a prominent real estate developer whose 1957 children are Samuel T. Stern EAS’14, Dana R. company developed the Wells Fargo Center Dr. Joseph C. Beres GM’57, Washington Kamerling C’15, Justin E. Kamerling W’17, in Philadelphia; Feb. 9. Temple University’s Crossing, PA, retired staff president of the and Allison L. Stern C’20. Fox School of Business is named in his honor. radiology department at Nazareth Hospital; Ann Louise Bernard Klaus Nu’55, Bry- He served in the US Navy during the Korean May 30, 2019. He served in the US Navy dur- an, TX, a nurse; Oct. 30, 2019. One son is War. One son is Harry Dietz Fox WG’85. His ing World War II. Adam Klaus C’83. brother is Robert A. Fox C’52. Walker J. Burns Jr. W’57, Westfi eld, MA, Robert T. Owen W’55, Germantown, TN, Dr. William F. P. Hushion C’56, Wall- a retired employee at a tool manufacturing a retired banker; June 20, 2018. He served in ingford, PA, retired medical director at Phil- company; Feb. 14. He served in the US Army the US Army. At Penn, he was a member of adelphia Electric Company (PECO); Feb. 4. Corps of Engineers during the Korean War. Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Sphinx Se- He served in the US Air Force during the Dr. Robert E. Campbell M’57 GM’59, nior Society, and the track team. Korean War. Haverford, PA, former professor of radiology Gary A. Saage W’55, Teaneck, NJ, a CPA Norman L. Leventhal WG’56, War- at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine; Feb. who later became township manager of Te- rington, PA, former co-owner of a motor lodge 2. He joined the faculty at Penn in 1958 as an aneck; Jan. 5. He served in the US Army and and restaurant; Feb. 23. He also trained guide assistant instructor of radiology. He was an the US Army Reserves. At Penn, he was a dogs for Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind. instructor and a resident from 1961 to 1964 member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, WXPN, Dr. Benjamin F. MacDonald M’56, Fram- and then became a full instructor. He became and the Army ROTC. ingham, MA, a physician who ran a nursing an assistant professor in 1970, an associate Dr. Martin Seidenstein C’55, Wall Town- home with his wife; Feb. 10. He was also a professor in 1973, and a professor in 1976. He ship, NJ, a retired surgeon; Jan. 28. One school psychiatrist. He served in the US Navy. worked at Pennsylvania Hospital for 50 years daughter is Robin A. Cook EAS’87. He served Dr. Allen R. Myers C’56, Ardmore, PA, a and chaired its radiology department from in the US Army. former associate professor of rheumatology 1986 to 2005. He left Penn in 1995 but re- Edward L. Snitzer L’55, Philadelphia, a in Penn’s School of Medicine and former dean turned in 1997 as a clinical professor. He founding partner of the investment manage- of medicine at Temple University; Jan. 15. He stayed at Penn until 2011. The Robert E. Camp- ment fi rm Prudent Management Associates; joined the Penn faculty in 1969 as an assistant bell Endowed Professorship in Radiology at Sept. 11. He was a trustee of the Albert Einstein professor of medicine and went on to become Pennsylvania Hospital is named in his honor. Healthcare Network and a former president of an associate professor of rheumatology, before Matthias “Matt” Christy W’57, Millville, Congregation Rodeph Shalom. His wife is Gail leaving the University in 1978. He wrote sev- NJ, the owner of a funeral home; Jan. 26. At

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Penn, he was a member of Delta Kappa Ep- years working as an urban renewal planner York, AT&T, and other organizations; Dec. silon fraternity. for the State of Connecticut. 18. At Penn, he was a member of the debate Dr. Stanley Forster M’57, Washington, DC, Richard B. Stevenson ChE’58, Lewes, DE, team. His sister is Iris Jenner Purcell PT’67. a retired obstetrician-gynecologist; Jan. 27. One a retired manager at General/Kraft Foods; Judith Weaver May SW’60, Morristown, grandchild is Brendan P. Forster C’11 W’11. Jan. 18. He served in the US Navy. At Penn, he NJ, a retired psychologist who began her ca- Robert L. Franklin W’57, New York, a was a member of the Navy/Marine ROTC. reer as a school social worker; Dec. 22. retired attorney; Sept. 20, 2018. Arthur B. Van Blerkom W’58, New York, Meryl Moss Nesbitt CW’60, Rancho Robert D. Glick W’57, Chicago, a retired a retired CPA; Dec. 28. His son is Lawrence Mirage, CA, an art gallery owner, art consul- attorney; April 15, 2017. S. Van Blerkom W’88. tant, jazz pianist, and art history teacher; Dr. Donald F. Hockman D’57, King of Sept. 15, 2018. At Penn, she was a member of Prussia, PA, a retired dentist; Feb. 14. He 1959 Sigma Delta Tau sorority. served in the US Air Force. His daughter is Dr. John E. Benzel M’59, Greenville, DE, Dr. Manuel A. Sison GM’60, Orange, CA, Lauren Hockman Becker W’88, and his sister a retired hematologist; Feb. 13. He served in former owner of Vista Care; August 31, 2018. is Joy Hockman Silverberg Ed’61. the US Army Medical Corps. Hon. Wayne E. Wagner W’60, Scotia, Dr. Richard V. Lolla D’57, Toms River, NJ, Richard A. Brown W’59, New York, a NY, former president of a real estate com- a retired dentist; Jan. 20. He served in the US retired executive at Morgan Stanley; Jan. 18. pany, an entrepreneur who owned various Navy. His wife is Ruth Lawrence Lolla DH’56. At Penn, he was a member of WXPN. His businesses, and town supervisor of Glenville, Lowell R. Thomas C’57, Clearwater brother is Robert E. Brown W’66. NY; Feb. 11. He served in the US Army and Beach, FL, Dec. 19. Rosalie Ann Cook HUP’59, Holmdel, NJ, the Army Reserve. At Penn, he was a member Donald W. Zeug W’57, Upper Montclair, a retired nurse; Jan. 17. of the Army ROTC. One daughter is Belinda NJ, a retired textile plant manager: Jan. 12. He Dr. Richard S. Heilman M’59, Burlington, A. Wagner C’81. served in the US Army during the Korean War. VT, a gastrointestinal radiologist and professor At Penn, he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fra- emeritus at the University of Vermont; Feb. 7. 1961 ternity. His wife is Dorothy Mulick Zeug CW’57. He served in the US Navy. At Penn, he was a Dr. Theodore B. Appel III M’61, Boulder, member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. CO, retired president of the medical staff at 1958 John B. Malcolm Jr. WG’59, Melbourne, Boulder Community Hospital; Dec. 24. He Dr. Ignatius W. Adams V’58, Surfside, FL, a retired US Army colonel and head of served in the US Army. FL, a retired veterinarian who opened the telecommunications for the Commonwealth Dr. Ralph B. Dell M’61, Whitingham, VT, fi rst veterinary emergency clinic in Miami; of Pennsylvania; Jan. 12. a biomathematical expert and professor at June 16, 2018. Rabbi Andrew David Packman C’59, Okla- Columbia University; Feb. 11. Gerard J. Brault Gr’58, State College, PA, homa City, a former rabbi; Feb. 10. He served as Dr. Stanley J. Dudrick M’61 GM’67, professor emeritus of French and Medieval a Jewish chaplain at a US Air Force base. His Eaton, NH, former professor of surgery at studies at Penn State; Feb. 5. He served in the wife is Nina Packman CW’60, and his brother is Penn’s School of Medicine and a world-re- US Army during the Korean War. Dr. Gerald S. Packman C’64 M’68 GM’73. nowned medical pioneer who invented the Kalman E. Fine W’58, Elkins Park, PA, Michael P. Ratner V’59, Fairfi eld, CT, a intravenous feeding method known as total a retired attorney; Dec. 8. His wife is Suzan retired veterinarian and adjunct professor at parenteral nutrition (TPN); Jan. 18. With Weller Fine GNu’88. the University of Bridgeport; Dec. 25. He served Penn professor of surgery Jonathan Rhoads, Mary J. Foster GEd’58, Hollidaysburg, in the US Army. In 1999, he received the Alum- he developed TPN while serving as a surgical PA, a former nurse for Cambria County (PA) ni Award of Merit from Penn Vet Alumni. resident at Penn. The technique, which al- Mental Health; Feb. 1. She served in the US Dr. John L. Wanamaker Jr. M’59 lows people who cannot eat to be fed through Navy Nurse Corps during World War II. GM’63, Athens, PA, a retired cardiologist; a tube that bypasses their intestines, is cred- Dr. Victor J. Hajjar D’58, Harrisburg, PA, Jan. 29. He served in the US Air Force for 10 ited with saving the lives of millions of acute- a retired dentist who maintained a practice years. One son is Thomas L. Wanamaker C’79. ly ill people who cannot feed themselves. for more than 50 years; Jan. 24. After his residency at HUP, he joined Penn’s Gary King W’58, Lighthouse Point, FL, a 1960 faculty and was promoted to assistant profes- retired investment executive; Jan. 26. At Nancy Bowen HUP’60, Saylorsburg, PA, sor in 1968 and associate professor in 1969. Penn, he was a member of Phi Epsilon Pi a nurse; Jan. 29. He served as chair of the department of sur- fraternity and Mask & Wig. Lula C. Dillard DH’60, Philadelphia, a gery at Pennsylvania Hospital and director John C. Pickens WG’58, Windsor, CT, retired dental hygienist; Feb. 4. of the Residency Training Program in Gen- former executive director of Windsor Com- George M. Jenner W’60, Tampa, FL, a eral Surgery at Penn, before he was recruited munity Television; Jan. 9. He also spent many former systems analyst for the City of New to Houston to serve as the founding chair-

82 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 person of the department of surgery at the Elaine Joyce Singer CW’62, Virginia Alison Berger Saifer W’90, and his brother is University of Texas Medical School. His de- Beach, VA, a former schoolteacher in Phila- Dr. Bruce J. Berger GM’74. velopment of intravenous feeding earned him delphia; Oct. 24. Dr. Jeremy C. Jackson G’65 Gr’71, Syra- numerous awards, including the American cuse, NY, a pastor at Trinity Fellowship Surgical Association’s highest honor, the Me- 1963 Church, where he served for 42 years; Jan. 16. dallion for Scientifi c Achievement for Distin- Sherod M. Cooper Jr. Gr’63, Annapolis, Paul E. Lusk GAr’65, Albuquerque, NM, guished Service to Surgery. Medscape named MD, a retired English professor at the Uni- an architect and professor emeritus of archi- him one of the most 50 infl uential physicians versity of Maryland; Feb. 11. He served in the tecture and planning at the University of in history, and the American Society for Par- US Army and the Merchant Marine. New Mexico; Jan. 8. enteral and Enteral Nutrition established the Dr. William B. Drake D’63, Elbridge, NY, Robert B. Mullen G’65, Concord, CA, a annual Stanley J. Dudrick Research Scholar an orthodontist; Jan. 16. He served as a cap- retired director of personnel management Award in his honor. He also was internation- tain in the US Air Force. for the National Park Service; Jan. 17. He ally known as an expert in fi stula surgery, Robert T. Hart GEd’63, St. Augustine, FL, served in the US Army during World War II. complex re-operative surgery, intestinal fail- a retired executive recruiter and outplacement David S. Soble W’65, Chicago, Feb. 23. ure, surgical metabolism, and nutrition. counselor; March 3. He served in the US Army. Betsy McCue Train CW’65, Boston, an Carolyn Cunningham Holmes CW’61, George A. Perfecky C’63, Glenside, PA, interior designer; Feb. 24. At Penn, she was Shrewsbury, MA, owner and operator of Cas- a professor of Russian, German, Ukrainian, a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Her tlemane Farm, a business that trained and Polish, and Spanish languages at La Salle husband is Jack D. Train GAr’75. raced harness horses; Jan 27. University; Jan. 11. At Penn, he was a member Franklin “Frank” Mann C’61, Cotuit, of the soccer team. 1966 MA, an entrepreneur who founded his own Robert H. Roak C’63, Lafayette Hill, PA, Dr. Carl Chance WEv’66 CGS’69, Pan- computer consulting company; Jan. 11. At a retired German language teacher at a ama City Beach, FL, professor emeritus of Penn, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Mu boarding school; Dec. 30. He was granted business law and economics at Gloucester fraternity, Sphinx Senior Society, and the soc- three Fulbright Teacher Exchange Awards to County College (now Rowan College of South cer and lacrosse teams. Germany and Switzerland. He served in the Jersey), a school he helped fund and build; Marvyn E. Siegal GEE’61, Benicia, CA, US Marine Corps and the Pennsylvania Na- Jan. 17. He previously served in the US Navy a retired electrical engineer; Feb. 5. He served tional Guard. At Penn, he was a member of for 22 years. in the US Army during the Korean War. Delta Phi fraternity and the lacrosse team. Dr. Frank J. Grady GM’66, Lake Jackson, TX, an ophthalmologist; Jan. 12. He served 1962 1964 in the US Coast Guard. Dr. Edward G. Abramson C’62, Alexan- Edward Germann Jr. WEv’64, Pocono Dale P. Kensinger L’66, Newton, MA, a dria, VA, a urologist who maintained a practice Lake, PA, a retired vice president of a bank; retired tax attorney; Jan. 15. He served in the for more than 50 years; Nov. 7. At Penn, he was Dec. 2, 2018. He served in the US Army. US Air Force during the Vietnam War. a member of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. Patricia Kearney Miamidian GEd’64, John Peder Maarbjerg WG’66, Stam- Janet Messner Grosh DH’62, Lititz, PA, Plymouth Meeting, PA, a high school English ford, CT, a retired history professor at the a dental hygienist and a second-grade teach- and Latin teacher; Jan. 4. Her husband is University of Connecticut; Feb. 8. His wife is er; Feb. 21. Leon R. Miamidian EE’57 GEE’62. Mary Penzold Maarbjerg G’69. Mary Joyce Marinick Lepine CW’62, Bruce G. Randzin W’64, Wallkill, NY, a George H. Milligan WG’66, Enterprise, Rock Hill, SC, a medical assistant in her hus- school computer technician; Feb. 19. FL, retired CEO of Computer Science Innova- band Dr. Eugene M. Lepine M’66’s dermatol- David M. Rost C’64 WG’68, Weston, tions, a technology company; Jan. 11. He served ogy practice; Jan. 20. At Penn, she was a FL, former president of Rost Energy; Jan. in the US Air Force Reserves for 22 years. member of Chi Omega sorority. 30. At Penn, he was a member of Beta Theta William M. Stellenwerf WG’66, Mah- Lynann Rudert G’62, Annapolis, MD, a Pi fraternity. wah, NJ, a retired accountant; Feb. 27. retired high school history teacher; Dec. 7. Constance Levin Weeks CW’66, Cham- Joseph Ryczkowski GEd’62, Ewing, NJ, 1965 bersburg, PA, a former schoolteacher; Jan. 21. a retired supervisor of vocational programs Vicki Douglass Bendit CW’65, Penn Val- and funding for the New Jersey Department ley, PA, Feb. 6. At Penn, she was a member of 1967 of Education; Feb. 15. He served in the US Sigma Delta Tau sorority. Carol A. Furlow GEd’67, Hernando, FL, Coast Guard during the Korean War. Howard M. Berger WG’65, Boca Raton, a special education teacher; Feb. 12. Richard G. Segal L’62, Prospect, KY, a FL, a retired owner of a building mainte- Luzius R. Hug WG’67, Gossau, Switzer- retired attorney; Jan. 5. nance company; Feb. 17. His daughter is land, March 1, 2018.

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Walter C. McSherry WG’67, Spartan- Bruce N. Director W’69, New York, a for- supplier in Nicaragua; Jan. 5. At Penn, he was burg, SC, Feb. 5. He served in the US Army for mer executive at JP Morgan who later started a a member of the swimming team. Three sons 20 years, including during the Korean War. consulting fi rm; March 5. At Penn, he was a are Duilio I. Baltodano C’05, Ernesto J. Bal- Richard J. Regan GEd’67, Hatfi eld, MA, member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. His sons are todano C’05, Eduardo R. Baltodano C’08; and a retired chemistry teacher; Sept. 24. He was Justin J. Director C’05, who is married to Jen- one daughter is Indiana M. Baltodano C’12. also a volunteer fi refi ghter for 35 years. nifer L. Director C’06; and Nicholas S. Director Two brothers are J. Antonio Baltodano W’73 Edward B. Spector C’67, Philadelphia, C’08, who is married to Ashley H. Fidel C’10. and A. I. Baltodano Cabrera W’77. Sept. 15. Dr. Joseph D. Fecher Jr. V’69, Hunting- Jean Ellen Kirby Broehl GEd’70, Ha- John G. Womack Jr. L’67, Silver Spring, don Valley, PA, a veterinarian; Dec. 17. nover, NH, a retired reading teacher; Jan. 14. MD, retired assistant chief counsel at the Dr. Howard L. Feldman GM’69, Middle- Richard B. Cowen C’70 WG’75, Brighton, National Highway Traffi c Safety Administra- town, NY, an ophthalmologist and ophthal- NY, a high school teacher; Feb. 25, 2019. At Penn, tion; Dec. 11. mic plastic surgeon; Feb. 10. His son is Jeff rey he was a member of WXPN. His wife is Randi S. L. Feldman W’10. J. Cowen C’77 OT’77. His son is David M. Cowen 1968 Dr. Peter R. Heisen M’69 GM’73, Wash- C’06, and his daughter is Lauren B. Cowen C’09. John W. Burlingame Gr’68, Philadelphia, ington Crossing, PA, a doctor specializing in His sister is Laurie Cowen Wunderle WG’76. a former professor of material science at Drex- infectious diseases; Feb. 23. His wife is Joyce David N. Fleischer C’70 WG’76, New el University and engineer for the Department B. Heisen CW’67, and his son is Christopher York, a retired natural gas analyst and prin- of Defense; May 8. He served in the US Army. Heisen C’91. cipal at Chickasaw Capital; Jan. 19. He served Joseph V. Galati WG’68, Harrisburg, PA, Gary W. Hicks C’69, Boise, ID, an execu- in the US Navy. At Penn, he was a member of a head traffi c engineer at the Pennsylvania tive at Spay Neuter Idaho Pets. May 27, 2019. the Navy/Marine ROTC and WXPN. His wife Department of Transportation; Jan. 4. He At Penn, he was a member of Beta Theta Pi is Judith E. Fleischer WG’76. His son is Jay served in the US Air Force. fraternity and the Daily Pennsylvanian. H. Fleischer EAS’19 GEng’19, and his daugh- William E. Macaulay WG’68, Stamford, Marie L. Kerpan CW’69, Mill Valley, CA, ter is Esther A. Fleischer C’21. CT, an energy investor and booster of tuition- a former executive at a career placement ser- Dr. Marc W. Heft EE’70 D’74, Gaines- free education; Nov. 26. He served as CEO of vice who later started her own consultancy; ville, FL, a professor of oral and maxillofacial First Reserve Corporation, which he acquired Dec. 25. At Penn, she was a member of Kappa surgery, and director of the Center for Oral in 1983 and grew into one of the energy indus- Delta sorority. Health and Aging at the University of Flori- try’s largest private equity fi rms. Among other Edward D. Lowry G’69, Oakton, VA, re- da; Feb. 8. He served in the US Public Health gifts, he donated $30 million to the City Uni- tired executive director of federal regulatory Service. At Penn, he was a member of WXPN versity of New York to give thousands of stu- policy and planning at Verizon; Dec. 7. and the sprint football team. dents the opportunity to graduate tuition free. Terrell Marshall Jr. GrE’69, Glenside, Elizabeth Gargiulo St. Martin WEv’70, Rose Marie E. Noble HUP’68, Milton, PA, a former professor of electrical engineer- Springfi eld, PA, owner of a fabric store; Jan. 5. DE, a longtime employee at Haverford MRI ing at Penn; Dec. 13. He also worked as an who later worked at a vineyard; Feb. 16. electrical engineer for General Electric. 1971 James J. Restivo Jr. C’68, McMurray, PA, Richard G. Maynard G’69, Harrison, Donald S. Bedrick W’71, Yardley, PA, a commercial litigator who specialized in ME, a retired management consultant for Dec. 11. At Penn, he was a member of Beta complex insurance disputes; Dec. 28. At General Dynamics, an aerospace and defense Sigma Rho fraternity. His brother is Gerald Penn, he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma company; Dec. 28. He served in the US Army. I. Bedrick W’65. fraternity and the Daily Pennsylvanian. His Rev. Nathaniel T. Reece C’69, Ponte Vedra Maryann Ruda Brickfi eld CW’71 Gr’76, wife is Gail H. Restivo HUP’69. Beach, FL, a banker who later became a minister; Washington, DC, retired chief of the neuro- Rodney D. Williams SW’68, Philadel- Feb. 1. At Penn, he was a member of Delta Psi cytology unit at the National Institutes of phia, retired president of Philadelphia Cor- fraternity, and the ice hockey and heavyweight Health; Jan. 13, 2019. poration for Aging; Feb. 12. rowing teams. His brothers are John Brooks Michael Chopan C’71, Allentown, NJ, a Reece Jr. W’69 and Christopher S. Reece C’72. retired manager at the New Jersey Offi ce of 1969 Renee Stern Zuritsky CW’69, Philadel- Information Technology; Dec. 22. Grover J. Cronin III W’69, Gloucester, phia, Feb. 10. Two sisters are Lydia Stern Dr. Richard C. Drummond D’71 GD’73, MA, a youth swimming and diving coach; Rubin CW’63 and Hedy Stern Frisch CW’75. Gladwyne, PA, a retired orthodontist; Dec. Jan. 29. He served in the US Navy. At Penn, 29. He also spent 20 years in the US Navy. At he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, 1970 Penn, he was a member of Penn Players. Penn Players, the swimming and diving team, Duilio J. Baltodano W’70, Key Biscayne, Harlan K. Harris C’71, Libertyville, IL, a and the Navy/Marine ROTC. FL, president of CISA Agro, an agricultural retired fi nancial executive; Jan. 6. He served

84 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE May| Jun 2020 in the US Army. At Penn, he was a member 29, 2018. He served in the US Navy during 1982 of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. the Vietnam War. Cynthia Brudnick ASC’82, Swampscott, James C. Liang Gr’71, Iowa City, IA, former MA, Feb. 8. professor of Oriental studies in Penn’s School of 1975 Arts and Sciences; Jan. 30. In 1963, he was hired Dr. Terence O. Abbott V’75, Wind Gap, 1984 as a professor of Oriental studies (which became PA, a veterinarian; Nov. 21. James V. Martin WG’84, Glenview, IL, an the department of Asian and Middle Eastern Dr. William G. Johnson GM’75, Newark, executive at an IT services company; Jan. 5. studies in 1992). He left Penn in 1976 to move to NJ, professor of neurology at Rutgers Univer- the Netherlands for a position at Leiden Univer- sity; Jan. 30. He was part of the team that iden- 1989 sity, where he reorganized the Chinese language tifi ed the fi rst gene for Parkinson’s disease. He Russell J. Haskins W’89, Philadelphia, program. He retired as prorector for interna- served in the US Public Health Service. former executive for Sony Pictures Entertain- tional aff airs at the university in 2006. Emily A. Sopensky WG’75, Arlington, ment and DirecTV who later became a real Henry J. “Jim” Marshall III C’71, Concord, VA, a former business communications con- estate broker; Jan. 24. NH, co-owner of an accounting consultancy for sultant for the Institute of Electrical and Dr. Mark H. Mikulics GM’89, Poway, nonprofi ts; Jan. 21. At Penn, he was a member Electronics Engineers; Sept. 25. CA, an orthopedic surgeon; Jan. 29. of Delta Phi fraternity and Mask & Wig. Dr. Steven Alec Weber Gr’89, Portland, 1976 OR, a professor of anthropology at Washing- 1972 Gerardo R. Garza Castillo WG’76, San ton State University; Jan. 14. His wife is Dr. Hon. Tama Myers Clark GCP’72 L’72, Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico, Feb. 11. At Penn, Claire M. Wilkinson-Weber Gr’94, and his Mitchellville, MD, a retired Philadelphia he was a member of the soccer team. Two brother is Kenneth D. Weber EE’79. Court of Common Pleas judge; Jan. 22. After sons are Miguel Garza WG’12 and Gabriel working as an attorney for the US Depart- Garza WG’19. 1990 ment of Housing and Urban Development Randall L. Geyerman WG’76, West Des Dr. Robertson B. Tucker C’90 M’95, and as an assistant district attorney for Phil- Moines, IA, a retired CFO and COO for vari- Philadelphia, a child psychologist specializ- adelphia, she served on the Philadelphia ous companies; Jan. 16. ing in anxiety disorders; Nov. 10. Court of Common Pleas for 30 years. Dr. Burt H. Feintuch G’72 Gr’75, Ports- 1977 1991 mouth, NH, director of the Center for the Dr. Mitchell D. Feller M’77, Mount Pleas- Brian J. Gordon C’91, Weston, CT, Nov. 18. Humanities and a professor of English and ant, SC, a physician who maintained a fam- He owned his own strategic consulting busi- folklore at the University of New Hampshire; ily practice in Mount Pleasant as well as New ness and served as second selectman of Oct. 29, 2018. Zealand for fi ve years; Jan. 7. Weston. At Penn, he was a member of Delta Wayne T. Mollitor C’72, Lehighton, PA, Dr. Norman Zel Rothstein M’77, Phoe- Kappa Epsilon fraternity and a former presi- Jan. 15. nixville, PA, a physician at PMA Medical Spe- dent of his class. His parents are Ronald B. George C. Royal III C’72, Reston, VA, a cialists for 36 years; Jan. 23. His brother is Gordon W’64 and Claire Israel Gordon CW’64, former software engineer, systems analyst, Dr. David M. Rothstein M’80 GM’84. and his sister is Elizabeth Gordon Delizia C’95. and architect for several companies; Dec. 31. Mary Elizabeth Kearns GrEd’91, Lan- Terrence L. Spaar WG’72, Hummel- 1978 caster, PA, a retired sex therapist; Feb. 3. stown, PA, retired deputy secretary of admin- Michael Lupu ASC’78, Minneapolis, a Joan Apostle Pallante GrEd’91, Coving- istration for the Pennsylvania Department senior dramaturg at the Guthrie Theater in ton Township, PA, a former elementary and of Health; Feb. 9. He served in the US Army. Minneapolis; Sept. 5. high school teacher and college professor; Dr. Mortimer L. Mendelsohn GM’78, Feb. 15. 1973 Pleasanton, CA, a senior scientist and associ- Karen A. Talerico GNu’91 Gr’99, Port- Rita Nora Pollard Burgess CGS’73, ate director of the biotechnology division at land, OR, a retired nurse; Feb. 8. Darby, PA, a retired law librarian; Dec. 31. Lawrence Livermore Laboratory; Jan. 8. He Karl L. Harter III C’73, Madison, WI, began his career as a professor at the Perel- 1993 owner of a running shoe store; Jan. 28. man School of Medicine. Stephen Freeman III C’93, Chantilly, VA, Ralph “Alan” Miller WG’73, Wayne, PA, senior account manager for Amadeus Hos- an investment banking executive; Feb. 15. He 1979 pitality; Feb. 22. At Penn, he was a member served in the US Marine Corps Reserve. Thomas E. Dittmar WG’79, Liberty, NY, of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. Dr. Walter D. Stevenson III GM’73, Jan. 29. At Penn, he was a member of Theta Dr. Madhu Prasad Kalia WG’93, Devon, Quincy, IL, a retired ophthalmologist; Nov. Xi fraternity. PA, a professor of biochemistry, molecular

May| Jun 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 85 ALUMNI Obituaries GEE master’s, Electrical Engineering HUP Nurse training (till 1978) School Abbreviations GEng master’s, Engineering and L Law Ar Architecture Applied Science LAr Landscape Architecture ASC Annenberg GEx master’s, Engineering Executive LPS Liberal and Professional Studies GFA master’s, Fine Arts M Medicine biology, and other subjects at Thomas Jef- C College (bachelor’s) GGS master’s, College of General Studies ME Mechanical Engineering ferson University; Feb. 9. CCC College Collateral Courses CE Civil Engineering GL master’s, Law MT Medical Technology CGS College of General Studies (till 2008) GLA master’s, Landscape Architecture MtE Metallurgical Engineering 1995 Ch Chemistry GME master’s, Mechanical Engineering Mu Music Sharon McClellan-Schwartz Nu’95 ChE Chemical Engineering GM Medicine, post-degree NEd Certificate in Nursing GMt master’s, Metallurgical Engineering Nu Nursing (bachelor’s) GNu’97, Glenside, PA, a nurse at Fox Chase CW College for Women (till 1975) D Dental Medicine GNu master’s, Nursing OT Occupational Therapy Cancer Center; Jan. 31. DH Dental Hygiene GPU master’s, Governmental PSW Pennsylvania School of Social Work EAS Engineering and Applied Administration PT Physical Therapy 1996 Science (bachelor’s) Gr doctorate SAMP School of Allied Medical GrC doctorate, Civil Engineering Professions Dr. Joan C. Amatniek GM’96, Newtown, Ed Education EE Electrical Engineering GrE doctorate, Electrical Engineering SPP Social Policy and Practice (master’s) PA, a neurologist; Feb. 11. FA Fine Arts GrEd doctorate, Education SW Social Work (master’s) (till 2005) G master’s, Arts and Sciences GrL doctorate, Law V Veterinary Medicine 1997 GAr master’s, Architecture GrN doctorate, Nursing W Wharton (bachelor’s) WAM Wharton Advanced Management Sr. Teresita Hinnegan GFA’97, Philadel- GCE master’s, Civil Engineering GRP master’s, Regional Planning GrS doctorate, Social Work WEF Wharton Extension Finance phia, a medical mission sister and former GCh master’s, Chemical Engineering GCP master’s, City Planning GrW doctorate, Wharton WEv Wharton Evening School lecturer in Penn’s School of Nursing; February GD Dental, post-degree GV Veterinary, post-degree WG master’s, Wharton 10, 2019. In 1982, she joined the faculty at GEd master’s, Education Hon Honorary WMP Wharton Management Program Penn, where she taught for 20 years. She es- tablished the Nurse-Midwifery Distance Dr. Marina Bernal Fernandez C’10, cavity. It was used to study the eff ects of air Learning Training Program for the recruit- Boston, a radiology resident at Boston Uni- pollution on asthma suff erers; to test the ef- ment and training of certifi ed nurse-midwives versity; June 22, 2018. fects of drugs in the treatment of asthma and in underserved areas of rural Pennsylvania. Jeff rey W. Focht GrEd’10, Bethlehem, bronchitis; and to establish eff ects of surgery She also taught a course called “Public Policy PA, assistant professor of business at DeSales on emphysema. He left Penn in 1974 to direct and Access to Health Care for the Poor.” Later, University; Feb. 2. the John B. Pierce Foundation, a position he she became active against human traffi cking held until 1988. He served in the US Navy. and cofounded a women’s safe house. 2014 Dr. Stanley J. Dudrick. See Class of 1961. Dr. Nicola Painter V’14, New York, a vet- Robert H. Dyson Jr., Williamsburg, VA, 1998 erinarian; Jan. 6. professor emeritus of anthropology at Penn Charlita Cardwell L’98, New York, a for- and Williams Director Emeritus of the Penn mer vice president and senior counsel at Faculty & Staff Museum; Feb. 14. He came to Penn in 1954 as American Express; Jan. 16. At Penn, she Henry J. Abraham. See Class of 1952. an assistant professor of anthropology and as- served as president of the Black Law Stu- Dr. Harry R. Bruhn. See Class of 1945. sistant curator in the Near East section of the dents Association. Her husband is Martez R. Donald E. Campbell, associate professor Penn Museum, where he was responsible for Moore L’98. emeritus CE (clinician educator) in pediatrics the installation of the Mesopotamia Gallery. at the Perelman School of Medicine; Jan. 21. He was appointed dean of the faculty of Arts 1999 He joined Penn in 1987 as a clinical assistant and Sciences in 1979 and served in this capac- Linda M. Rauscher CGS’99 G’03, Phil- professor of pediatrics. He went on to be pro- ity until 1982. With his discovery of “The Gold- adelphia, an environmental education advo- moted to assistant professor, assistant profes- en Bowl of Hasanlu” in 1958, he became famous cate; Dec. 9. sor CE, and then, in 1996, associate professor through a multipage spread in LIFE magazine CE. His area of expertise was quantitative (1959). The “bowl” (now in the National Mu- 2001 fl ow cytometry. He also served as the scien- seum of Iran) is a large, gold vessel, decorated Lamar S. Plummer C’01, Philadelphia, tifi c director for the Clinical Immunology with mythological scenes. It was found in the Feb. 21. At Penn, he was a member of the bas- Laboratory at the Children’s Hospital of skeletal hands of a warrior who appears to have ketball team, leading the Quakers in scoring Philadelphia. He retired in 2010. been fl eeing the second story of a building as in the 2000–01 season and setting a single- Dr. Robert E. Campbell. See Class of 1957. it fell. Dyson previously served in the US Navy. season program record with 96 three-pointers. Arthur B. DuBois, New Haven, CT, for- Sr. Teresita Hinnegan. See Class of 1997. mer professor of physiology and medicine at James C. Liang. See Class of 1971. 2010 Penn; Dec. 24. While at Penn, he developed Terrell Marshall Jr. See Class of 1969. Arthur Detmar Chamberlain WG’10, the body plethysmograph, a device that mea- Dr. Mortimer L. Mendelsohn. See Class London, UK, Aug. 13. His wife is Djenaba L. sures the resistance to breathing in the body’s of 1978. Chamberlain WG’10. airways and the volume of air in the chest Dr. Allen R. Myers. See Class of 1956.

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here is power here in the slopes of this park, in the hearts and by the concern of “Tthose gathered here today,” said Edmund Muskie, a US senator from Maine, as he addressed a crowd of nearly 30,000 in Fairmount Park. It was Philadelphia’s first Earth Day: April 22, 1970. And it was the culmina- tion of Earth Week, a pumped-up cele- bration of the environment, founded, in part, by Penn students 50 years ago. The seed for Earth Day was planted in 1969, when, seeing the success of teach- ins in raising awareness about the Viet- nam War, Gaylord Nelson, a US senator from Wisconsin, called for national teach-ins about the environment. Com- munities across the nation sprang into action, and Penn’s campus became the unofficial Philadelphia headquarters. The city would not just have one day dedicated to environmental education, but an entire Earth Week. Chaired by Austan S. Librach GRP’78 and directed by Edward W. Furia Jr. C’63 GCP’69 L’69, Philadelphia’s Earth Week Committee consisted of mostly Penn stu- dents and faculty, including professor of landscape architecture Ian McHarg [“A Man and His Environment,” Sep|Oct 2019]. Together, they organized a series This spread, from the April 23, 1970, Despite McHarg’s ominous outlook, of events to educate the region about the edition of the Daily Pennsylvanian, some positive momentum was perils of pollution throughout the week shows some of the performers and gained that day. When asked about of April 16–22, 1970. speakers at Earth Week, which includ- the success of Earth Week, Furia told Activities were held in Penn’s Irvine ed poet Allen Ginsberg, consumer pro- the DP it was “unbelievable … I can’t Auditorium, as well as on the campus- tection activist Ralph Nader, Pulitzer even talk.” es of Temple, Swarthmore, and Villa- Prize-winning biologist René Dubos, In December 1970, Congress autho- nova. The penultimate event—the sign- Zen Buddhist Alan Watts, Senator rized the creation of the Environmen- ing of the “Declaration of Interdepen- Muskie, and Professor McHarg. tal Protection Agency, which enforces dence”—drew 7,000 people to Indepen- “Why do I have to be the one to bring the Clean Air Act of 1970, the Clean dence Mall. The cast of the Broadway you the bad news?” McHarg asked the Water Act of 1972, and the Safe Drink- musical Hair performed, as did the Na- crowd during his speech. “You’ve got ing Water Act of 1974, among other en- tive American rock band Redbone. no future.” vironmental regulations. —NP

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